Why One Company Holds the Keys to the AI Chip Boom

ASML doesn't make chips. It makes machines that make chips and offers tech that no other company has been able to recreate. Lithography is a process that directs light through a series of mirrors, lenses, and a special blueprint to transfer patterns onto silicon wafers, essentially shrinking chip designs down to sizes invisible to the human eye and creating the electrical pathways that give a chip its function.All of the manufacturers of the most advanced chips in the world, whether they say it publicly or ...