ASML Holding NV, a key supplier to computer chip makers such as Intel Corp., reported a euro117 million ($155 million) loss for the first quarter on Wednesday as sales dried up amid the global economic downturn.
In the same period a year earlier, ASML had net profit of euro145 million. Sales plummeted by 80 percent to euro184 million from euro919 million.
ASML makes machines used to map out the circuitry of semiconductors. Customers include Intel, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd., while its main competitors are Nikon Corp. and Canon Inc. of Japan.
"Semiconductor equipment demand collapsed in the …
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