--- title: The Secret Company Controlling Apple and Tesla | daily.dev description: ASML, a Dutch company, is the sole manufacturer of EUV lithography machines — $200 million devices weighing 180 tons with 100,000+ parts that are essential for... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/the-secret-company-controlling-apple-and-tesla-cblw1tdqj twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: The Secret Company Controlling Apple and Tesla | daily.dev og:description: ASML, a Dutch company, is the sole manufacturer of EUV lithography machines — $200 million devices weighing 180 tons with 100,000+ parts that are essential for... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/the-secret-company-controlling-apple-and-tesla-cblw1tdqj og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/cBlw1TdQj.png og:image:alt: The Secret Company Controlling Apple and Tesla og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # The Secret Company Controlling Apple and Tesla **[Slidebean](https://daily.dev/sources/slidebean)** · 1 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary ASML, a Dutch company, is the sole manufacturer of EUV lithography machines — $200 million devices weighing 180 tons with 100,000+ parts that are essential for producing advanced microchips. Every major tech company including Apple, Nvidia, and Tesla depends on these machines. Without ASML, global advanced semiconductor manufacturing would halt, making it the ultimate supply chain bottleneck in the tech industry. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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