Netherlands ASML Announces First Quarter Revenues of €1.65 Billion

17 April 2015— Microelectronics and lithography machine giant ASML (Veldhoven, the Netherlands) announced this week that its net sales for the 2015 first quarter met guidance goals, at €1.65 billion (US$1.78 billion), and that its gross profit came in at €779 million, for a gross margin of 47.2 percent. Sales were driven by the company’s strong DRAM memory segment, along with its foundry segment. The company projects net sales of approximately €1.6 billion (US$1.73 billion) for the second quarter of 2015, with a 45 percent gross margin. The first half of 2015 will likely prove slightly stronger than the second half of 2014, according to ASML, and also slightly stronger than what the company projects for the second half of this year.

According to ASML’s president and chief executive officer, Peter Wennink, “Our focus for 2015 is to continue the recent encouraging progress on source power and productivity, to increase stability and availability of the systems as well as to ship our fourth-generation EUV system, the NXE:3350B."