ASML, a mighty Dutch tech firm, is at the heart of it Jan 8th 2024 | NEUKÖLLN AND VELDHOVENTEN TIMES a second an object shaped like a thick pizza box and holding a silicon wafer takes off three times faster than a manned rocket. For a few milliseconds it moves at a constant speed before being halted abruptly with astonishing precision—within a single atom of its target. This is not a high-energy physics experiment. It is the latest lithography machine dreamed up by ASML, a manufacturer of chipma...