VELDHOVEN, Netherlands: They call it “the shrink” -- it’s the challenge of how to pack more circuits onto the microchips which power everything from our phones to our computers, even our coffee machines.

And pushing the boundaries of this technology is Dutch company ASML, which since its foundation in 1984 has quietly become a world leader in the semiconductor business.

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