ASML Holding NV News

Implied volatility has spiked on ASML Holding N.V. heading into the company's July 15 earnings report.

Dutch lithography vendor ASML Holding NV lengthened its lead in the lithography stepper market in 2008, according to market research firm Gartner Inc., which also projected that overall stepper sales would decline 54 percent this year.

Barclays Capital started coverage of Europe tech stocks, rating the sector at neutral, its top pick ASML Holding at overweight and its least preferred stock Ericsson at underweight.

Hynix, IMEC, Intel, Samsung, Toshiba and possibly TSMC are the initial customers for ASML Holding NV's ''pre-production'' extreme ultraviolet lithography tool, according to an analyst.

Foundry chip supplier Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. has not yet committed itself to extreme ultraviolet lithography as the next means of making integrated circuits.

European stock-index futures advanced after Texas Instruments Inc. increased its second-quarter forecasts and Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman predicted the U.S. recession will end by September.

ASML Holding NV tipped a roadmap for the introduction of its first extreme ultraviolet lithography machines at the IMEC Technology Forum.

Japan's Nikon Corp. plans to cut 1,000 jobs within its chip-equipment unit due to the ongoing IC downturn.

Financial Select Sector SPDR The financials ETF has experienced a share price decline of approximately 3.5% to $11.83 today.

The SEMI book-to-bill is trending upwards again. From 0.96 in October it went to 0.97 in November, 0.86 in December, 0.47 in January 0.49 in February and then started moving upwards in March to 0.61. "The sharp decline in bookings levels has abated," says Stan Myers, CEO of SEMI, "however, the improvement in the March book to bill ratio is ...

When the CEOs of major constituents of the chip business publicly announce their expectation of recovery, the chances are that the horrendous slump in demand in Q4 08 and Q109 took the industry to the bottom in one sharp jolt, and that the trend is now upwards and to the right.

European and U.S. stock futures fell and Asian shares slid after Intel Corp. said it faces a a oefragilea economy, ASML Holding NV posted a loss and the stronger yen dimmed the earnings outlook for Japanese exporters.

ASML Holding NV , Europea s largest maker of semiconductor equipment, reported a first-quarter loss as sales plunged 80 percent amid an industry slump.

Dutch computer chip equipment maker ASML announced net losses for the first quarter after a collapse in sales, but said it saw signs of improving market conditions.

Standard & Poor's Equity analyst James Crenshaw is recommending investors sell shares in a bunch of semiconductor companies, including Infineon Technologies AG, STMicroelectronics N.V. and chip equipment manufacturer ASML Holding N.V., due to deteriorating demand and cash-flow problems.

Posted Fri Apr 03, 02:27 pm ET Posted By: Ken Nagy, CFA Market research firm VLSI Research recently compiled its list of the top semiconductor equipment suppliers.

Standard & Poor's Equity analyst James Crenshaw is recommending investors sell shares in a bunch of semiconductor companies, including Infineon Technologies AG, STMicroelectronics N.V. and chip equipment manufacturer ASML Holding N.V., due to deteriorating demand and cash-flow problems.

ASML Holding NV today announces the results of its Annual General Meeting of Shareholders held on March 26, 2009.

Experts at SPIE warned about an alarming R&D funding shortfall for the various next-generation lithography technologies - extreme ultraviolet , maskless and nanoimprint - creating more fear, uncertainty and ...

Lithographers have, for years, used various schemes and computational techniques to optimize the illumination source.