ASML's Best Selling Product Isn't What You Think It Is

https://www.siliconimist.com/p/asmls-best-selling-product

86•johncole•2h ago

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nottorp•1h ago

When I saw the title I thought it would be some plushie. Turns out I wasn't far from the truth!

johncole•1h ago

Spot on!

behohippy•1h ago

You might have a business idea there. I wouldn't mind a twinscan plushie for sitting on top of the workstation.

afandian•1h ago

Saved you a click:

> But right now, the most coveted product coming out of ASML is the 1,000-piece Lego version.

I thought it might be something like service contracts or chemical refills.

newsclues•1h ago

And it's not available to the public. Bummer.

johncole•1h ago

Find a friend that works at ASML?

bell-cot•1h ago

> ... sold exclusively to ASML employees with a strictly enforced “one per person” rule.

You'll need to be their very best friend. And make sure they're not too close with their family, nor a big fan of either Lego or collectables, before you cozy up.

cassianoleal•1h ago

There is a knock-off on AliExpress.

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005010807104987.html

johncole•1h ago

Brilliant. I knew there had to be a solution somewhere.

haddonist•1h ago

Might be worth contacting the seller before buying.

The "Color" (ie: type/what's being sold) is "PDF Manual By Email", so it's possible they selling just the PDF assembly manual...

wolfi1•1h ago

getting the bricks shouldn't be that difficult, should it?

davidjfelix•35m ago

yeah but if all you're getting is the manual that's free https://rebrickable.com/mocs/MOC-215601/NightHawk11991/asml-...

loudmax•1h ago

The Chinese knock-off TwinScan is almost as good as the original and far less expensive.

Because of course it is.

pantalaimon•6m ago

I would have expected a LEGO version of the SMEE machine

doe88•1h ago

It must be to prevent corporate spying ;)

cassianoleal•1h ago

> Even at the absolute bleeding edge of human physics, we still have a fundamental desire to play.

I'd say play is of fundamental importance at the bleeding edge of knowledge and technology. Without play, there's no appetite for failure. Without appetite for failure, there's no progress, no novel solutions, no creativity.

voidUpdate•1h ago

I'm not particularly surprised that the $600 Lego set sells better than the $400 million lithography tool...

mrweasel•1h ago

It's $200, otherwise I think it would be a bit on the high end in terms of price per piece. $600 is the cheapest version on eBay.

Unless you need the box, you can get the instructions online (https://rebrickable.com/mocs/MOC-215601/NightHawk11991/asml-...). Though that might be a recreation.

voidUpdate•1h ago

(I couldn't see a listed price in the article, so I just went for the cheapest resale price they said. Thanks for clarifying)

nikitaga•1h ago

> Employee Only: You cannot buy these in stores. They are sold exclusively to ASML employees with a strictly enforced “one per person” rule.

Wonder if they include this lego set as a gift with their real machines? Or are they like – our commercial agreement is worth $400M and not a lego set above that.

2ndorderthought•1h ago

"why does this matter?" Oh hello AI slop how are you today?

johncole•1h ago

Is this some sort of ai indicator now?

skrebbel•1h ago

Yep

masfuerte•18m ago

Any of these things on their own do not indicate AI but this articled is riddled with tells, including this one.

markovBaj•1h ago

for me it was the 3 bullet point list, esp. the "The Sales Gap"

amelius•56m ago

Maybe. At some point, humans will start sounding like AI.

mschuster91•18m ago

They already do, I recently heard people literally talk like tiktok videos in real life...

AntiUSAbah•50m ago

"Why it matters"

No it doesn't.

And the only thing it does again, to remind me, that this is cool as hell but i'm not able to buy it...

bux93•22m ago

Two words. Volkswagen sausage.

j_maffe•14m ago

Can we please do something about these AI slop articles? It's becoming really sadenning having to open a frontpage link only to find the same, meritless, braindead article one time after the other.

planb•8m ago

You're absolutely right! "Why Does This Matter?" was a dead giveaway that this article was not written by a human — it was written by a large language model.

But really: "Why does this matter?" When looking at an article like this, I rarely read the text. This is just fluff no matter if AI-generated or hand written. The info is "there's a LEGO set of that ASML machine" and the picture of that set. That's all I want to know before clicking the back button.

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