ASML's Secret: An exclusive view from inside the global semiconductor giant | VPRO Documentary 

As some who works for ASML, I love the tech and the people I work with. They are very smart and the tech is unbelievable advance. Proud to be ASML employee.

This is absolutely insane. Such an honor for the journalist team being able to get into the plant, and for us viewers to see it as well

Just applied for a job at ASML after watching this video. What an Amazing company

Europe needs more of this. Good job!

Respect..the company, the work, the culture, the CEO & VP with their thinking, their values reflected, humbleness & pride🚀🎶

7:30 I absolutely love how well he explains how a computer works in the simplest terms which everyone can understand, while being clear and concise. I'm an electrical engineer and when people ask me such questions I just give up because I know that they will be sleeping before I'm done explaining.

The genius of the Dutch. Such an amazing company with the future of the World in its hands. Thanks for a great insight into this unique company

When i was in the Netherlands, they were hiring 200 new employees per month, crazy.

amazing that people who speak Klingon have such advanced technology

“I would leave a company with those values right away”….I know the Dutch are famously direct but that was unnecessarily confrontational.

Throughout history the Netherlands has always been on the leading edge of optics.

I wish to thank the extraordinary litho team at ASML and the people that made this presentation. I have seen miracles in my time!

Great documentary. And chapeau to the Dutch for taking care of such a gold mine in such a professional way.

miriam is stunning

Wow the amount of talented gifted intelligent and young ASML employees!! Mind blowing 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯

This is not a documentary for hi-tech, its a 1-hour long invitation for nerds to go and work at nerd paradise! ^_^

The 'Heading' says ASML Number 1 Chip maker? They don't make semiconductors at all. They make the machines.

The best feedback to the designers is from the assembly techs. They are the first to see a problem.

Thank you for a great presentation. In a way, the world revolves around ASML and TSMC, these two companies are the seed from which our society grows.

@16:08 it is either she misspoke or the translator was lost in translation. To correct it: "the tin is fired at by the laser at 50,000 per second" and not per day.

The reporter said he would leave a company right away if their values were “challenge, collaborate, care”😂😂😂 Dude sounds like a real winner…

And there isn’t really a single company in Europe who buys these machines that isn’t actually a US,Tawain,China based company. Or wait there is BOSCH.

Amazing! This is one of the most amazing videos I have seen in a while. Thanks for a fun tour of this esoteric world.

wow!!! I watched every single seconds of this video and I'm proud of humans like this! I'm also inspired!

14:50 - "putting a man on the man" - from a technological standpoint, is indeed really hard thing to perform

Accuracy of ASML machines is truly impressive. There are no real competitors for them ob the global market. Its interesting that they are indispensable for a global supply of semicontuctors. Chip Market is dominanted by companies from America and Asia, but europeans still deal cards, especially in that niche.

This is simply brilliant. Thank you for bringing this up and sharing. It is a privilege to view such a marvel of our generation.

27:19 The Light Source is made by Trumpf in Germany, they produce the Laser who shoots the tin drops

thank you for this wonderful documentary! also thanks to asml and its people to show us, what kind of magic they are able to do. i‘ve heard about this company and its essential technology, but never really knew what they do. now i have a profound understanding of their work and am highly inspired by their philosophy and professional culture. please keep documentaries like these coming!

Man they speaking a different level of language. I can not wrap my head around this very complicated machine. This ppl are VERY GIFTED. My GOD.

as always, your documentaries are so well done , and I learn so much ...

This is the best documentary about ASML that I have seen. Congratulations to all the people that produced it.

Can you also do a video on their optics supplier? They are another interesting and critical part of the chip supply chain.

Beautiful example of cooperation this company is👍!

ASML: We always have to assume there are spies. ASML: Uses Thinkpad for their computers.

This is amazing its breathtaking how far humanity has come and what we have developed it's mind blowing how these machines are even made.

It's so shocking to learn that there are still technologies that can't be copied not for lack of fund but lack of, well, technology. Take that google!

Mooie documentaire VPRO! Een plezier om naar te kijken.

Absolutely incredible company and a brilliant documentary about them! I appreciate that the team covered such a wide range of subjects, from founding, to leadership, obviously technology, culture and more 👏

These are such brilliant, fascinating people. Respect!!!

Leuk dat je toch ook nog Nederlands hoort spreken naast het Engels in een wereldklasse bedrijf.

Creating chips for machines that creates chips Now that's recursion!

Breathtaking technology indeed. Thank you

I hate how the interviewer rudely interrupts with his very SMALL THINKING mindset! The CEO was about to drop some gems…

Best workplace during covid pandemic!

Awesome documentary about tech! The creators managed to make it well-balanced and engaging, thank you! 👏I graduated as microelectronics engineer (with honors, btw) and still remember the old-school process of chip- and PCB- making. Technologies has gone so far now... A remarkable moment at 44:33 - Challenge, Collaboration and Care - looks like CEO truly believes in it, and that resonates to me. Folks, I would add Curiosity and let's explore Mars together!🙃Space, nuclear energy, AI, advanced tech - shall be peaceful domains for the sake of humanity.

Just mind blowing. ✅

There would still be chips without ASML, just not the ones that depend on EUV

awesome piece of documentary, a cool place to work :)

Great documentary!! The Dutch are smart people!!!!

There's no contrast on the subtitles they can't be read didn't you prove this before you posted it or called it finished why not a voice over instead of subtitles

15:18: The most ingenious people in the world work here. It won't be long before they discover the principles of length measurements and parallelism.

thx for the awesome and informative Documentary... I love to get an tour of an awesome Company like ASML :)

Congrats to the dutch !

Fantastic!

If you want to see a great short video on how the EV Lithograph actually works, look up: 'The Extreme Physics Pushing Moore’s Law to the Next Level'

Insane Engineering!!

This is the most complex piece of machinery ever invented. It's mind boggling

Omg this is my dream job! A Electrical Engineers dream. Thank you for sharing,

Machines have their own personality. At TI they had an IC test machine that hated me. I would walk in, smell burning electronics, and log it out to maintenance. Maintenance would find nothing wrong and log it back in. This went on and on until the ground strap on the machine melted. A colleague would use the machine for 4 hours. I would walk into the room, and it would immediately go down. TI finally hired a technician for me so I did not have to go into that room.

Wow! That installation "owner". Rock star. 👏

Never forget about safety. Use Softgle Comfort

I'm sad the CT, USA plant was not mentioned here, we build a big portion of the machine and have a huge D&E presence

friends in portland :-)

ASML secret is probably networking. Btw. this is one of the best video I have seen on youtube.

"Already has to walk 20 minutes in high heels to get to her office" Bravo. Gripping writing here. Glad you took the time to bring us such insights.

The industry stopped using imperial system for the wafers. They don’t call it 12”, they call it 300mm. Being a European channel I would expect to see more metric system in the videos. Also it took a while for this channel to make a video about the single most industry in the world which happens to be Dutch.

amazed to see what company my uncle build up

ASML, the fantastic 👍

Why are they all using ThinkPad?

9:55 making a 20 minute walk sound like a big deal.

Nice video 📹

Amazing Dutch...

The works has been divided among players in semi conductor industry, today ASML alone and unique in pole position came from that choice. Blockage doesn't meant competition, to slow China rise is the reason why ASML is under the lights

Interesting that this video was made a year ago. How quick marketing status chanegs :-)

I live in a US town that will be building a $100B chip factory. Will be interesting to see how the town changes.

Interesting, the CEO of ASML has a picture of Hong Kong’s Victoria Harbor on his office wall. I wonder did the interview team had a chance to ask what’s the connection between the boss and Hong Kong. 🤔 Fascinated to learn more.

“without ASML there are no chips” Hyperbole. Not to take anything away from ASML as it builds the most advanced EUV lithography machines that are used by companies like TSMC to fab incredibly powerful transistor packed chips. However other vendors, e.g. Nikon, build litho machines albeit at a generation or more behind ASML’s tech. There certainly would be “chips” without ASML.

I love science

It's not the chinese but the Taiwanese under attack like Japanese hitachi and toshiba in 80s. This will get interesting real soon lol

! great

At 16:07, it's 50000 times a second.

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Interesting

the semiconductors considered from the solid state physics ... from the brave iraq 🇮🇶

Nice

@vpro documentary At 14:54 it should probably mean man on the moon.

49:07 *Gothic Chanting Intensifies**

"There's only one company in the world that can make it: ASML in Veldhoven". This will, of course, eventually change, like with every other product in the world.

Outstanding financials. Sales doubled in 4 years. Net profit after taxes is same as Apple 25%.

ASML needs highly technical people that are also highly creative. At Texas Instruments, my group had 24 "engineers". Only 2 bothered to read the free technical material. Only 1 read Research and Design Magazine. Who needs an X-ray mirror. Who needs a walnut-sized laser gyroscope. No one would ever want a more efficient X-ray laser for Lasic surgery. No one would ever want a 3-D mouse that tracks in 3 dimensions. At Abbott Laboratories they tried to hire 3 engineers to do the production design for an infusion pump based on a prototype from a famous west-coast "engineering company". Bryan did the mechanical engineering and I did the electrical and software engineering. They gave us specifications for size¸ weight, battery life, and cost. The time allowed was 6 months. We threw out the junk from the "engineering company". Brian designed a pole clamp. When it came time to test it (it needed to support 100 lb.), I said, “See that hat rack. Put the clamp on that. No. put it near the base.” Then I told my boss, “Now stand on it.” The clamp is rated at 1 project manager. I designed a bubble detector that actually detected bubbles. It used the critical angle of reflection to distinguish air from water. I read about a nutating stepper motor. I called the company. They asked how many do I need. I replied 5000. They choked. I told my boss, “If I decide to use that motor, we should buy the company.” I finally picked a cheap standard motor and designed a driver that gave me 9 times the rated motor performance. I designed the case so that removing 3 screws opened up the entire case for ease of maintenance. My power supply was only 97% efficient. The result was a pump that was half the size, half the weight, had 50% more battery life, and cost ⅓ the specified cost. The board of directors was afraid to put it into production. I terrified managers. I would tell them what I would build. That scared them because they knew it was impossible. Then I delivered what I promised. That scared them even more!

ENIAC was once the supercomputer!. VLSI was impossible before the advent of self aligned gate MOS transistors. Imagine what the future of chip production machinery could be?🤞.

Miriam should most certainly hit me up...

A few things to know: 1 - The EUV technology was developed by United States national laboratories along with some other US-based private companies, and then ASML asked for the permission of the US government to get access to the technology and got involved in the consortium. 2 - ASML acquired the technology from US national labs, also bought a couple of US companies to develop it further. 3 - Cymer (an independent subsidiary of ASML based in California) is the provider of the EUV light source, they design, develop and make the light source which is the main technology in ASML's EUV machines. 4 - Intel has played a major role in helping ASML with the capital and implementation of their technological capabilities to make these machines a reality.

ASML stock is a no brainer investment for the next few decades!

This is person X, as a little person was like this, and now is like this....

The only problem is that it is always cheaper and easier to develop a technology the 2nd time around. So the price of being the leader is the massive cost, and it is unavoidable if you want to stay ahead. These inefficiencies will have to be subsidised by the government since absolute cutting edge is the most expensive and inefficient part of R&D. You can only depend on a company like ASML to keep doing so, for so long.

Well that's one big Ad.

I think extra terrestrial being's wisdom is involved here. This can't be 100% human invention

NMMU is in Port Elizabeth