ASML is the company that's at the very center of your phone, your laptop and the AI revolution, and yet most people have never heard of it. ASM Lithography. A 5050 joint venture of Philips and ASM International ASML began life in 1984 in a leaky shed in Eindhoven in the Netherlands.Four decades later, it's the only company on earth capable of making the machines that print the tiniest circuits on the most advanced chips. Asml's early ascent was turbocharged by the likes of Intel, Texas Instruments and AMD. ...