Cleanrooms also affected: Worldwide IT disruption at ASML
The Dutch company ASML had to contend with a global IT outage on Friday, forcing many employees to work from home.
View of a cleanroom where ASML employees assemble the company's exposure machines.
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The world's largest manufacturer of exposure machines for chip production, ASML, had to deal with an IT disruption on Friday, which apparently affected the company's locations worldwide. Numerous employees had to work from home as a result. The problems were resolved by Friday evening, according to a company spokesperson. The cause is not yet known.
The Dutch daily newspaper Eindhovens Dagblad reported that offices, customer service departments, communication with the company's suppliers and even the cleanrooms were affected by the disruption. These cleanrooms are the production halls where employees assemble the exposure machines. The ASML share price fell slightly on Friday morning. At 9 a.m. the share was still at 631.90 euros, at 12 noon it was still at 615.50. However, the price recovered somewhat. It last closed on Saturday at a value of 624.60 euros.
Not the first IT mishap
ASML already made headlines last month with an IT mishap. The company accidentally published its financial report a day earlier than planned. The cause was a "technical error", ASML announced. The share price subsequently fell by around 20 percent, but this was also because customers such as Intel booked significantly fewer imaging machines.
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ASML supplies Samsung, chip manufacturer TSMC and Intel, among others, with exposure machines. Such machines are used to manufacture semiconductors. The company plays a significant role in the race for technical progress in microchips.
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