As of 2020 leading makers of the most important fab photolithography equipment.

Video 2. ASML: TSMC's Critical Supplier by Asianometry (2021) Source.

Video 3. How ASML Won Lithography by Asianometry (2021) Source.

First there were dominant Elmer and Geophysics Corporation of America dominating the market.

Then a Japanese government project managed to make Nikon and Canon Inc. catch up, and in 1989, when Ciro Santilli was born, they had 70% of the market.

youtu.be/SB8qIO6Ti_M?t=240 In 1995, ASML had reached 25% market share. Then it managed the folloging faster than the others:

TwinScan, reached 50% market share in 2002
Immersion litography
EUV. There was a big split between EUV vs particle beams, and ASML bet on EUV and EUV won.
youtu.be/SB8qIO6Ti_M?t=459 they have an insane number of software engineers working on software for the machine, which is insanely complex. They are big on UML.
youtu.be/SB8qIO6Ti_M?t=634 they use ZEISS optics, don't develop their own. More precisely, the majority owned subsidiary Carl Zeiss SMT.
youtu.be/SB8qIO6Ti_M?t=703 IMEC collaborations worked well. Notably the ASML/Philips/ZEISS trinity

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www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLNsYecX_2Q ASML: Chip making goes vacuum with EUV (2009) Self promotional video, some good shots of their buildings.

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