The company has R&D sites in Almere (the Netherlands), Helsinki (Finland), Leuven (Belgium, near IMEC), Phoenix (Arizona), Tama (Japan), and Dongtan (South Korea).

ASM also has sales & service offices across the globe, including United States, South Korea, China, Taiwan, Japan, Singapore and Israel.

Many different thin-film layers are deposited to complete the full sequence of process steps necessary to manufacture a chip.

ASM's technology development is driven by its customers' goal to build faster, cheaper, and more powerful semiconductor chips with reduced energy consumption.

As part of this scaling of dimensions, ASM supplies its customers – chip manufacturers – with machines that deposit ever thinner films of semiconductor materials.

[6][7] In addition, increasingly precise deposition methods are required as components on a chip such as transistors moved from planar to 3D structures, like FinFETs in the past decade.

[7] ASM offers a number of methods and accompanying machines to deposit these thin films of materials.

[1] Epitaxy is a process that is used for depositing precisely controlled crystalline silicon-based layers that are important for semiconductor device electrical properties.

The silicon epitaxy process can be used to modify the electrical characteristics of the wafer surface to create high-performance transistors during the manufacturing of semiconductor chips.

[1] 1960s: In 1964, Arthur del Prado [nl] founds ASM as 'Advanced Semiconductor Materials' in Bilthoven, the Netherlands.

Sale of ASM's horizontal plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition furnaces drive the company's growth.

[2] ASM invests in new semiconductor fabrication technologies, like lithography, ion implantation, epitaxy, and wire bonding.

From 1996 onwards, the company is also listed on the Euronext, Amsterdam.ASM retains a majority stake in ASM Pacific Technology.

In 2007, the company successfully brings atomic layer deposition from R&D to high-volume production via the high-κ metal gate application.

The application of (plasma enhanced) atomic layer deposition in multiple patterning and high-κ metal gate drives ASM's growth.

ASM sells its equipment to semiconductor manufacturers worldwide, with the majority of its revenues from Asian customers.

[12] Market capitalization at year-end 2021 was 18.88 billion euro, based on the closing share price of €388.70 on Euronext Amsterdam on December 31, 2021.