ASML's architects : the story of the engineers who shaped the world's most powerful chip machines

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Preface Introduction Wafer Stepper Prehistory 1962-1969 1. A Strange Insect 2. Philips Elcoma 3. David Mann 4. Ad Bouwer 5. The Violin Maker A License to Print Money 1970-1975 6. A Born Engineer 7. Travel Companions 8. Technical Note 105/71 9. The Silicon Repeater 10. American Style Death Throes 1976-1983 11. Wim Troost 12.‌ Troost’s Letter 13. GCA Plays Its Trump Card 14. Knocking on the Government’s Door 15. The Electric Wafer Table 16. The Rescue Mission 17. A Brick Shithouse The Deal 1983-1984 Arthur del Prado 18. Arthur del Prado 19. Fifty-Fifty 20. The Contract from Hell A Leveraged Die-Out 1984 21. Gjalt Smit 22. Hoodwinked 23. The Reunion 24. The Deadline 25. A Hundred Million Dollars 26. From Paris to Oberkochen 27. The Company from Hell 28. The Japanese 29. The First Drawings 30. The Cartoon Presentation 31. The First Want Ad The Deadline 1984-1986 32. The Business Plan 33. Landmark 34. Back to Elcoma 35. Victoria Veste 36. Anthill 37. Hotel Victoria 3. The American Market 39. If Something’s Supposed to Come in on Friday, It Isn’t Coming at All 40. Hurry, Hurry, the Future’s Nipping at Your Heels 41. We Can Win This 42. We Hear You, Jerry 43. AMD 44. Smit’s Sounding Board 45. Emergency Meeting 46. Not Wild About Wild The Big Spender 1986-1987 47. Euphoria 48. America’s Toughest Boss 49. Temptation Strikes Del Prado Once Again 50. The Sun Sets on GCA 51. Japanese Reliability 52. Boulevard of Broken Dreams 53. Take It or Leave It 54. Eighty Bucks and Sayonara Running in Place 1988-1990 55. The Fat Man 56. Flat Broke 57. Promising Customers 58. Nikon’s Achilles Heel 59. Cash Flow Positive 60. Turbo Mode Engaged 61. IBM Stuck With Each Other 1990-1992 62. The Circle Sir 63. German Stranglehold 64. A Movie for IBM 65. The Folk with the Golden Fingers 66. Japanese Glass 67. O-Lab 68. Blue Eyes 69. No-Brainer Growth 1993-1996 70. A Good Team 71. Value of Ownership 72. Scanning 73. The Korean Gorilla 74. Forty Thieves 75. The Medicine Man 76. An Audience with The Tank 77. Grassmann’s Baptism by Fire 78. On Its Own Two Feet Appendices Appendix 1 Appendix 2 One of the assistants starts scrubbing down the newly smoke-free rooms. “As soon as possible he will start wiping down all horizontal surfaces with a damp cloth before work begins. We are now waiting for instructions and cleaning materials,” Klostermann n Appendix 5 Appendix 6 Appendix 7 Appendix 8 Appendix 9 Appendix 10 Appendix 11 Appendix 12 Appendix 13 Endnotes