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Always Be Curious #218: Computex 2024, Asianometry visits ASML, and ASML pioneer Wim Troost passes

Always Be Curious #218: Computex 2024, Asianometry visits ASML, and ASML pioneer Wim Troost passes

This week in ABC: Computex 2024 brings a truckload of chip innovation, Asianometry pays a visit to Veldhoven, and one of ASML's founding fathers passed away at 98

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Jun 09, 2024
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This week, Wim Troost, a key figure in ASML's history, passed away at 98. Troost played a crucial role in the survival and growth of ASML in the 1980s. He ensured that Philips did not abandon the development of a promising lithography machine, which would become the foundation for ASML. He temporarily returned from retirement in 1987 to stabilize ASML d…

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