Comment on ASML stands for Advanced Semiconductor Materials and Laser, and was an American company, so when did it become a French company?

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Delascas@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

Quoting ASML themselves (from here: 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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