Day 8: ASM and ASML

We were received warmly, with coffee, at ASM even though we were more than an hour too early. After some explanation about the company, there was a clean room tour. In this clean room, ASM was producing ALD (atomic layer deposition) machines, an important machine for producing semiconductors. The director of manufacturing was glad to explain the manufacturing process.

After ASM, we went to its former daughter company: ASML. Here we started with a lunch in the company canteen. After the lunch, the country manager of ASML gave a presentation. He explained the current market in South-Korea, the difference between the Dutch and South-Korean working environment and the geopolitical sensitivities in the semiconductor industry. Secondly, an engineer talked about the Metrology and inspection systems that ASML uses to improve their overlay in their layer stacking. Also, the ways noticed problems can be fixed at clients were explained. We ended the day with a pub-crawl in Seoul.