[SmokingJoe]

Apple was founded 9 years before ASML so there’s NO WAY Apple would not have been founded without ASML.
Try and make some sense will ya?

[Henry Hnyellar]

ASML didn’t even become significant until the late 90s or early 2000s. Further, Intel, Samsung and TSMC own a good bit of the company.

[montag813]

Apple was founded 9 years before ASML so there’s NO WAY Apple would not have been founded without ASML. Try and make some sense will ya?

When did I ever say anything about Apple's founding? The then-fledgling company's Apple IIe or Macintosh that Jobs and Woz made, or which almost went bankrupt in 1997, have nothing to do what with gigantic Apple is TODAY.

Silicon runs their iPhones, Mac Minis and iPads. Silicon only made possible - like NVDIA's - with ASML’s technology. ASML holds a monopoly on the extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography machines required to manufacture the most advanced AI chips (such as Nvidia's H100, H200, and Blackwell GPUs) and processors that run every iPhone. ASML may eb the most important company on Earth, yet few people know who they even are.