Although chipmachinefabrikant ASML profits and revenue in the second quarter has increased, the company expects that the number of orders in the current quarter will decrease. The uncertainty about the economy would be the cause.
The Veldhoven-based ASML in the second quarter a net profit of 432 million euros. Last year was the profit in the second quarter to 239 million euro. The sales came in the last quarter, at more than 1.5 billion euros, an increase of 43 percent.
ASML saw in the last quarter, especially the demand for machinery for the manufacture of processors increases; this made 41 per cent of turnover. Chipmachines for the creation of flash memory had a share of 36 percent, while the machinery for the production of dram-memory 23 percent for years. Also let EMPLOYEES know that it is now 80 Twinscan NXT:1950i-lithografiesystemen has to know to wear, that are able to 22nm chips to bake with 230 wafers per hour. Also, it has five NXE:3100 extreme ultraviolet scanners are provided, which even on a 18nm process, semiconductors are to be produced.
Despite the good quarterly results of ASML, the company expects that this current quarter for not more than 500 million euros in new orders intake. The chip maker says that the uncertain economic developments, contribute to the caution. Nevertheless, the company keeps its sales expectations of 5 billion euro over the entire year of 2011.