by AFP Workers Writers
The Hague (AFP) Jan 28, 2026
Dutch tech big ASML, which sells cutting-edge machines to make semiconductor chips, reported a big acquire in annual web revenue Wednesday and predicted a vivid future pushed by demand for synthetic intelligence.
ASML is a crucial cog within the world economic system, because the semiconductors crafted with its instruments energy all the things from smartphones to missiles.
After-tax revenue for 2025 got here in at 9.6 billion euros ($11.5 billion), in contrast with 7.6 billion euros for 2024.
CEO Christophe Fouquet mentioned ASML prospects had been bullish on the medium-term outlook “based totally on extra sturdy expectations of the sustainability of AI-related demand.”
Fourth quarter web bookings, the determine merchants monitor most carefully, got here in at 13.2 billion euros.
This in contrast with 5.4 billion euros within the third quarter of 2024 and cheered traders, with shares opening round seven % larger on the Dutch market.
Complete 2025 web gross sales had been a document 32.7 billion euros. The agency had beforehand mentioned it didn’t anticipate gross sales to be beneath the 28.3 billion euros banked final yr.
ASML expects web gross sales in 2026 to be between 34 and 39 billion euros, it introduced in new forecasts.
For the primary quarter of this yr, the agency predicted it will submit between 8.2 billion euros and eight.9 billion euros in gross sales.
“We anticipate 2026 to be one other progress yr for ASML’s enterprise,” mentioned Fouquet.
ASML additionally introduced an inside organisational shake-up in a bid to hurry up working strategies that Fouquet mentioned had grow to be “much less agile.”
The agency expects to chop round 1,700 jobs within the Netherlands and america, largely from management roles, Fouquet mentioned.
ASML employs round 44,000 workers worldwide.
– US-China tech struggle –
The tech big is caught in the midst of a US-led effort to curb high-tech exports to China over fears they might be used to bolster the nation’s army.
Beijing has been infuriated by the export curbs, describing them as “technological terrorism.”
In a case unrelated to ASML, the Dutch authorities briefly seized management of Nexperia, a Chinese language-owned firm that makes low-tech semiconductors.
That transfer sparked a serious row between Beijing and the West that threatened to cripple automotive producers that depend on Nexperia chips.
In late October, following commerce talks between China’s President Xi Jinping and his US counterpart Donald Trump, Beijing agreed to renew exports of Nexperia chips halted over the row.
ASML already warned when presenting third-quarter outcomes that China gross sales would “decline considerably” in 2026 in contrast with “very robust enterprise” in 2024 and 2025.
A breakdown of gross sales confirmed 33 % of gross sales going to China in 2025, in comparison with 41 % in 2024. China was ASML’s prime buyer in each years.
Longer-term, ASML believes that the quickly increasing AI market will push up its annual gross sales to between 44 billion and 60 billion euros by 2030.
Turning to the fourth quarter, ASML gross sales got here in at 9.7 billion euros. It had forecast between 9.2 billion and 9.8 billion euros.
Web revenue for the fourth quarter was 2.8 billion euros, in comparison with the two.1 billion euros booked within the third quarter of final yr.
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