Shulou(Shulou.com)11/24 Report--

CTOnews.com, November 6, according to China Daily, Shen Bo, senior vice president and president of Asma, a Dutch lithography giant, said in an exclusive interview during the Expo that Asma's business in China is growing rapidly this year. China is expected to account for more than 20% of Asma's global revenue for the whole year, and is also very optimistic about its business in China next year.

Shen Bo, the official website of ▲ Tuyuan ASML, said, "We will recruit more than 200 people in China in 2023. We expect the development of our business to continue to bring a lot of demand in 2024. The expansion of our team should still be a relatively large scale. Of course, we still have to make an annual plan. We are still looking at the specific figures, but the growth of the whole team is certain."

It is reported that China accounted for 46% of Asma's global business revenue in the third quarter of this year. The performance for the whole year is expected to exceed 20%, which is a large increase compared with previous years.

Shen Bo also said that from the first machine shipped to China in 1988, by the end of 2023, the installed capacity of ASML lithography machines plus measuring machines in China was close to 1400. Recently, the United States has announced the latest chip export controls. From a volume point of view, based on the volume of ASML's business in China this year, it will probably have an impact on Asma's business next year.

At present, the global semiconductor industry is facing a series of challenges, and some practitioners even say that "globalization is dead." Shen Bo believes that global cooperation has always been the most effective way to promote technological progress in the entire semiconductor industry, or the only way, and only globalization can help the entire industry move forward most efficiently. At present, nearly 85% of Asma's products are not self-made, but need to collaborate with the best suppliers in the world.

Asmai reported third-quarter financial results last month, with net sales of 6.7 billion euros (CTOnews.com Note: currently about 51.791 billion yuan) and a net profit of 1.9 billion euros (currently about 14.687 billion yuan), down slightly from the previous month, with a gross profit margin of 51.9 percent.

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