South Korea’s President Visits ASML to Strengthen Tech Ties
- Yoon becomes first foreign leader to visit ASML’s cleanroom
- ASML produces equipment essential to chip advancement
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South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol became the first foreign head of state to visit the cleanroom of ASML Holding NV in the Netherlands, highlighting a technology alliance between two countries that each serve as a mainstay of global semiconductor supply chains.
Yoon visited ASML’s headquarters with Dutch King Willem-Alexander on Tuesday to see the production of next-generation extreme ultraviolet lithography machines, according to a statement from the South Korean presidential office. Earlier, ASML said separately it would team up with Samsung Electronics Co. to build a plant that will develop cutting-edge semiconductor processing technology in South Korea.