The world’s most complex machine

A great read on ASML, a name everyone should be at least passingly familiar with given their critical role in global chip supply chain.

These machines are roughly the size of double-decker buses. To ship one requires 40 freight containers, three cargo planes, and 20 trucks. They are the world’s most complex objects. Each contains over one hundred thousand components, all of which have to be perfectly calibrated for the machine to produce light consistently at the right wavelength.