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ASML Sells Lego-Like Model of Chip Machine to Workers

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Bloomberg Dec 24, 2024 22:28 · 13.3k Views

ASML, the maker of the world’s most advanced chipmaking machines, was selling 'Lego' replicas of its TWINSCAN EXE:5000 high-NA extreme ultraviolet lithography machine to employees. The Lego-like replica was going for €208 ($216) on ASML’s employee store. Bloomberg's Guy Johnson and Tom Mackenzie discuss.

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  • 00:00 ASML has created what could be one of the most coveted items for technology fans
  • 00:06 this Christmas.
  • 00:07 For 208 euros, employees of the Dutch chip making machine firm can buy a Lego style miniature
  • 00:14 of a lithography machine.
  • 00:16 The model is apparently the Twin Scan EXE 5000.
  • 00:21 Basically this is designed to celebrate Asml's 40th anniversary.
  • 00:24 So I have got a lot of Lego at home
  • 00:27 and, and I for personal use, for personal use and
  • 00:29 my children have a loss of it it seems.
  • 00:31 And
  • 00:32 I don't know, I, I reckon we could make that.
  • 00:34 I reckon we've got enough kit that we could probably
  • 00:37 because these, these could be worth, I'm assuming they must be worth a lot in the secondary market because everybody's going to want one of these.
  • 00:41 208 euros.
  • 00:42 Is that 200, two 108 euros?
  • 00:45 I was checking the real thing cost 373,000,000.
  • 00:48 So it seems like quite a good deal.
  • 00:50 So, so in that respect, I mean, how big are these things?
  • 00:53 What the real ones, what they're so big that you have to ship them in three different Boeing aircraft to get them to your customer Intel in the US from from
  • 01:00 Eindhoven in the Netherlands.
  • 01:01 So they're, they're pretty large,
  • 01:04 10s of 10s of thousands, hundreds of thousands of different components.
  • 01:06 And when you speak to executives at ASML, they say
  • 01:09 actually
  • 01:09 the biggest part of our job is supply chain management is the complexity of the supply chains because of the number of components going inside.
  • 01:15 One of these machines is the flattest surface on the planet.
  • 01:19 It's a mirror
  • 01:20 that's made by a German company.
  • 01:22 And that mirror that reflects these lasers is the flattest surface known to man.
  • 01:27 Wow.
  • 01:28 OK, there
  • 01:29 you go.
  • 01:29 Tom's got all the information on this.
  • 01:30 Imagine Lego haven't exactly replicated
  • 01:32 that particular piece of equipment with inside.
  • 01:34 We'll have to break it open.
  • 01:35 We'll have to break.