Our purpose and mission
At ASM, we’re powered by our ambition to create leading-edge semiconductor process products, services, and new materials for our customers, industry, and society at large.
Our impact
The world’s progress is powered by semiconductors. At ASM, we take on the toughest challenges at the atomic level, with our innovations driving the future of tech. As technology becomes ever smarter, faster, and more integrated into daily life, our breakthrough materials and deposition technologies power the chips that drive progress. The work we do each day is enabling AI, cloud computing, sustainable energy, electric vehicles and next-generation healthcare, to name just a few.
Our purpose
Our purpose is to improve people's lives through advancing technologies that unlock new potential.
Our mission
Our mission is to enable our customers' success by creating leading-edge semiconductor process products, services and new materials.
Culture at ASM
We know technology alone doesn’t change the world. People do! That’s why our people are at the heart of ASM.
Our values
Our culture is built on three core values: We Innovate, We Deliver, We Care. They are the foundation that drives us to excel in everything we do.
With passion and impact, we innovate.
We discover tomorrow’s solutions, today. We push boundaries while striving for simplicity, and always with impact.
With courage and resilience, we deliver.
We stay ahead of the game, meet challenges head-on, and own our mistakes. Delivering results that matter so our customers can reach peak performance.
With humility and integrity, we care.
At ASM, “you” and “we” go hand in hand. We win as a team, we learn as a team. Everyone is valued and treated with respect. No egos. No exceptions.
Our contribution
ASM’s atomic-layer innovations are driving the future of tech. We’re improving millions of lives worldwide by enabling critical technology like AI, medical devices, space exploration, and more.
To power these advances, chips must get smaller, faster, and more efficient. That’s where our diverse, global team of scientists, engineers, and creators comes in – united by ambition and driven by purpose.
We are masters in the art of atomic layering: precision-built innovation with real-world impact. At ASM, excellence is our baseline as we enable the chips the world will run on five generations from now. Our cutting-edge solutions may be invisible to the naked eye – but they open the door to a world of possibilities.
Moore to come
Gordon E. Moore (1929-2023), co-founder of Intel, defined Moore’s law in 1965: “The number of transistors on a chip will double approximately every two years.” At the time, that was an almost unbelievable claim. And yet, Moore was clearly ahead of the game: the semiconductor industry remains committed to reducing the size of transistors so that more of them fit in the same physical space.
Our customers are now manufacturing 3nm node transistors. Find that hard to picture? One nanometer is a millionth of a millimeter.
Today’s most advanced microprocessor chips include billions of transistors, which need to be as tiny as possible. To deliver these ever-shrinking dimensions while improving transistor performance, the top chip manufacturers rely on ASM deposition technology.
As an established innovator, we’re confident Moore’s Law is continuing, and we expect it to continue for at least the next decade – and likely longer than that. This will be driven by device and transistor innovations, enabled by new materials and full use of the third dimension (3D).
We believe, too, that more functions per chip area can, and will be, integrated in the coming decade, and that we’ll need continuous innovation in semiconductor technologies to make this happen, not only in core logic and memory, but also in heterogeneous integration and advanced packaging.
In the past decade, device structures have been moving from 2D to 3D. For example, NAND has gone from 2D-NAND to 3D-NAND. DRAM today is still 2D-DRAM, but developments are on the way to develop 3D-DRAM in the longer term. In logic, FinFET is moving to gate-all-around.
Shaping the future at the atomic level
For over 50 years, ASM has been pioneering advanced microchip technology. Our processes work at the smallest scale to power the biggest shifts in tech. ASM’s ALD (Atomic Layer Deposition) and Epi (epitaxy) innovations unlock the power, performance, and efficiency required for next-gen AI applications.
Our core business is solving tomorrow’s problems today – before the world even knows they exist. We move fast, question limits, and challenge the laws of physics to create what the future needs. Our forward-thinking mindset ensures that we always remain ahead of what’s next.
