Comment by adriand
2 days ago
Wow, that’s very cool. Was there an ecosystem in NL for this sort of company at the time, and is this where ASML came from / has its roots?
2 days ago
Wow, that’s very cool. Was there an ecosystem in NL for this sort of company at the time, and is this where ASML came from / has its roots?
No, ASML was spun out of Philips (as was e.g. NXP)
As hencq already mentioned ASML and NXP were spinoffs from Philips, to be specific from the Philips Natuurkundig Laboratorium [1] or NatLab for short. What something like e.g. Bell Labs was for the USA the NatLab was for the Netherlands: an industrial research and development organisation where theoretical research and product development were integrated into the same organisation. Apart from the already mentioned ASML and NXP spinoffs it was also where the Compact Disc [2] was developed. NatLab was disbanded in 2001, the facilities now house a business park (High Tech Campus Eindhovem [3]) where both ASML as well as NXP have a presence.
[1] https://grokipedia.com/page/philips-natuurkundig-laboratoriu...
[2] https://grokipedia.com/page/Compact_disc
[3] https://grokipedia.com/page/High_Tech_Campus_Eindhoven