Hmm. In a boom people over-order.

Strong orders predicated on future earnings of OAI and Ant?

The stock price did not move.

So nothing was eased.

I don't think "running out of steam" is the expected failure mode here. We are talking about bulk ordering machines that produce chips that in turn will hit the market in half a decade. That's like adding power plants to the grid that runs the ball pump inflating the ballon. ASML will probably be the last that faces the ripples of the AI bubble going bust.

If you buy the machines and not use them, at most you lost several hundred of millions of dollars (not really, because that machine still retains value for you or someone else later).

On the opposite end, if you don't buy the machines in time, mispredict the demand and can't produce, you lose tens of billions.

Until we find a better substrate, silicon IS the future.

The title makes no sense... how does ASML orders where you get the machine in the far future predict AI spending?

I’d think that orders for long lead time rivalrous slots of a very finite resource are basically OOTM call options for future demand. It says something that firms think demand is plausible but not a whole lot about how probable it really is. You can always idle these things, you can’t conjure one immediately.

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Feb 2000: Record orders for chip gear push SEMI index to four-year high

https://www.eetimes.com/record-orders-for-chip-gear-push-sem...

> Capital equipment suppliers have been increasing their forecasts for revenue growth in 2000 as chip manufacturers begin to add new wafer fabs and backend assembly plants. Last week, for example, Applied Materials Inc.–the world's largest semiconductor equipment supplier–announced it had increased its forecast for industry growth in wafer fab equipment sales to 46% from a projection of 19% at the end of last year (see Feb. 16 story).

> The strong wave of new orders “confirms the strength of the current market cycle,” said Stanley T. Myers, president of SEMI.

This time it's different.

Aren't they always selling everything they manufacture? No matter if you are in a boom or a bust, ASML will always have a years long backlog.