[jeroen94704]

It's not that bad. ASML ships several tens of units (costing $millions to $tens of millions each) each quarter, but they also have an order backlog of several thousand units. This includes not just the super-high-end EUV machines they are in the process of developing, but also the less-than-super-high-end ("low-end" doesn't really apply to any of their machines).

[skrebbel]

Oh come on. In 2009, crisis year, the whole local Eindhoven economy was a mess. Nearly all software agencies had people fired, hardware component suppliers went bottom up.

Then some foundry (TSMC if I recall correctly) places an order for six ASML machines. Six! Big news, ASML is hiring and needs hundreds of engineers now please, pronto. Supplies get lots of that need, get back in the black numbers, and half a year later the entire city is back up and running. Everybody's hiring again, bright future hooray everything.

The entire 2008 crisis took less than a year in Eindhoven because one chip foundry ordered six machines from ASML.