AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – ASML Holding NV, a key provider to pc chip makers, is predicted to report a 12% improve in quarterly internet revenue on Wednesday and replace prospects on whether or not a fire at its manufacturing facility in Berlin may have an effect on manufacturing plans.
Analysts predict ASML, Europe’s largest expertise firm by market capitalisation, to report fourth quarter internet revenue of 1.51 billion euros ($1.72 billion), up from 1.35 billion euros a 12 months earlier, in line with Refinitiv knowledge.
Sales are anticipated to rise 20% to five.1 billion euros.
ASML is making an attempt to develop manufacturing as its prospects – which embrace TSMC, Samsung Intel – make investments closely in new capability to attempt to ease a world semiconductor scarcity.
ASML mentioned in September it was benefiting from long-term developments within the electronics trade and may double-digit gross sales progress within the coming decade.
However, buyers obtained a shock firstly of 2022 when the corporate suffered a fire at a manufacturing facility in Berlin.
ASML cargo delays may have a ripple impact on semiconductor markets, however the firm’s statements appear to point the fire’s harm was restricted.
In an preliminary evaluation on Jan. 7, ASML mentioned it anticipated no disruption to deliveries of its workhorse product, DUV lithography machines, presently used within the manufacture of a lot of the world’s logic and reminiscence chips.
However, it mentioned it was too quickly to say whether or not there could be any delays in deliveries of its most superior EUV methods, machines that price $150 million apiece and are used to map out the circuitry of innovative pc chips.
ASML’s shares, which quadrupled over 2018-2021, are down about 9% thus far this 12 months.
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(Reporting by Toby Sterling; Editing by Mark Potter)