ASML offers 10 percent stake to Samsung and TSMC

ASML is with Samsung and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. discussing an interest in the company. ASML still has ten percent to distribute, after the company previously concluded a deal with Intel for a fifteen percent stake.

ASML has acquired Samsung and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. prioritized as major customers to take a remaining 10 percent stake. Earlier this week, Intel signed a similar deal with ASML. Intel invests 3.3 billion euros to accelerate the development of 450mm wafers. Intel will own 15 percent of the shares. ASML has made 25 percent of the shares available. It plans to use the proceeds to research 450mm wafer production and accelerate the development of extreme ultraviolet lithography.

Due to the already made deal with Intel, 10 percent of the shares remain. According to EETimes, Eric Meurice, CEO of ASML, said in a conference call: “We are still in negotiations with Samsung and TSMC. It is not yet certain that both companies want to buy all available shares. Maybe they will enter for a smaller percentage, some space gives for other companies to get involved.”

TSMC informed Reuters that it would consider the proposal. Elizabeth Sun, spokesperson for TSMC, said: “The proposal is an invitation to invest together in exchange for some shares of ASML.”