ASML Long term investment ideaLooking at history and the philosophy that we are witnessing the technological gold rush with the advancement of AI and next generation NVIDIA chips. The idea that during a gold rush, the ones who got the wealthiest were those that sold pickaxes. Looking into this supply chain, the bottleneck is clear, this is an industry that takes time to build and scale. Arizona fab to years and billions of taxpayer dollars to get done, and it still took years.
With ASML being the only company supplies the lithography machines that take months to build and ship, they are school bus size light canon printers that need specialized teams to run and operate. Doesn't seem that any competitor in on the horizon, but with quantum technology also developing exponentially, their dominance in the chip market could strengthen past that of TSMC in my opinion. Their codependency on one another is being overlooked in markets, in my opinion.
