
CEO Christophe Fouquet announces third quarter results and demand growth.
Asml Holding will increase production capacity by over 30% by 2028 to meet the strong demand linked to artificial intelligence, as announced by CEO Cristophe Fouquet.
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Asml Holding is a Dutch microprocessor giant that supplies essential machinery for semiconductor production.
The Dutch microprocessor giant Asml Holding will increase its production capacity "by more than 30%" by 2028. This was stated by president and CEO Cristophe Fouquet while illustrating the results of the 3rd quarter.
"Our customers - he explains - continue to increase their estimates on short- and medium-term orders, driven mainly by their forecasts on the size and duration of investments related to artificial intelligence". "In light of their visibility on demand - he continues - some customers are expressing their interest in placing orders for 2029 and 2030".
"With such a strong vision and with an impulse on the order book that is growing quarter by quarter this year - he argues - we now predict that our scheduled deliveries for both 2027 and 2028 will not be able to satisfy the requests of our customers".
"For this reason - he underlines - we are gearing up to increase our production capacity by over 30% by 2028, which we had previously foreseen". "Furthermore - he concludes - we continue to guarantee our customers a significant offer of wafers through our portfolio of production upgrades".
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