Kyle Harrison
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Focus: The ASML Way
Focus: The ASML Way — Inside the Power Struggle over the Most Complex Machine on Earth
- Author
- Marc Hijink
- Published
- 2024
- Pages
- 344
- Recommended
- 2 times
Why it’s on the list: An insider account of how a company in a quiet Dutch town came to hold a monopoly on the lithography machines the whole semiconductor industry depends on.
Where I saw it: A reply to @WillManidis’s question on X, June 2, 2025 — “what is the single best book you can read that will explain an entire industry?” — recovered from that thread and saved to Kyle’s Apple Note “Books To Read”. Thread: https://x.com/willmanidis/status/1929527399718269081
Connections
- what is the single best book… (tweet) — the saved thread this recommendation came from.
- ASML
- Semiconductors
- Technological Innovation