5 Largest Semiconductor Companies by Market Cap

4. ASML Holding N.V. (NASDAQ:ASML)

Market Value as of  December 4, 2022: $244.6 billion

ASML Holding N.V. (NASDAQ:ASML) is a Dutch company that is responsible for manufacturing the machines that build semiconductors. The firm is based in Veldhoven, the Netherlands.

ASML Holding N.V. (NASDAQ:ASML) is currently readying its high-NA chip making machines. With NA standing for ‘numeric aperture’ these machines allow their lenses to focus a larger amount of light on the silicon wafer that enables higher resolution at small dimensions. Newer chipmaking technologies such as 2-nanometer suffer from defects since the near infinitesimal circuit size leads to lower quality, and high NA improves this by using more light.

51 of the 920 hedge funds part of Insider Monkey’s survey for this year’s third quarter had invested in ASML Holding N.V. (NASDAQ:ASML).

ASML Holding N.V. (NASDAQ:ASML)’s largest investor is Ken Fisher’s Fisher Asset Management which owns 4.6 million shares that are worth $1.9 billion.