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ASML stands for Advanced Semiconductor Materials and Laser, and was an American company, so when did it become a French company? (lemmy.today)
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[–] 32 points 2 months ago (2 children)

ASML was never an American company. It started as a joint venture between the Dutch Phillips and the equally Dutch ASM, and when it became an independent company it remained in the Netherlands. Did you know non American companies are also allowed to have English names?

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    • [–] 6 points 2 months ago

    Lol, wat?

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    [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    It was never American, it is not French. Rent a globe.

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    [–] 1 point 2 months ago (1 child)

    I believe it was bootstrapped with tech from Philips. I didn't know it was American.

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    • [–] [S] -4 points 2 months ago* (2 children)

    when it changed from American company to Dutch, not French :D

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Quoting ASML themselves (from here: https://www.asml.com/en/company/about-asml/history)

    In 1984, electronics giant Philips and chip-machine manufacturer Advanced Semiconductor Materials International (ASMI) created a new company to develop lithography systems for the growing semiconductor market. Called ASM Lithography, we began our days inauspiciously, located in a leaky shed next to a Philips office in Eindhoven, the Netherlands

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