{"slug": "asml-raises-2026-sales-forecast-again-on-booming-ai-chip-demand", "title": "ASML raises 2026 sales forecast again on booming AI chip demand", "summary": "ASML raised its 2026 sales forecast for the second time this year to between €43 billion and €45 billion, driven by booming AI chip demand, as second-quarter results beat expectations. The Dutch chip-machine maker also lifted its gross margin forecast and reported that Intel began using its newest High NA EUV system in production. ASML remains constrained by US-led export restrictions on sales to China, which still accounted for 14% of system sales in Q2.", "body_md": "# ASML raises 2026 sales forecast again on booming AI chip demand\n\nSee more DutchNews articles in your Google search results\n\nSee more DutchNews articles in your Google search results\n\n[Add as a favourite source on Google Add DutchNews as a favourite source on Google](https://www.google.com/preferences/source?q=dutchnews.nl)\n\nChip-machine maker ASML raised its full-year revenue forecast for the second time this year on Wednesday, after demand tied to AI pushed its second-quarter sales and profit past expectations.\n\nThe Veldhoven-based company now expects 2026 net sales of between €43 billion and €45 billion. It also lifted its forecast for gross margin, a key measure of profitability, to between 54% and 56%.\n\nASML is Europe’s most valuable listed company and the only maker of the advanced lithography systems used to print the smallest features onto computer chips.\n\nFor the third quarter it expects sales of €11 billion to €12 billion, again above the roughly €10.3 billion analysts had forecast.\n\n**Export restrictions**\n\nThe Dutch company remains caught in the technology standoff between the US and China. Under US-led export rules it is barred from selling its EUV machines and most advanced DUV machines to Chinese customers, though it can still sell less capable equipment there.\n\nEven so, China accounted for 14% of system sales in the second quarter, and ASML expects Chinese customers to make up about 20% of sales over the full year. US lawmakers have proposed measures that could tighten those restrictions further.\n\nSeparately, ASML said US chipmaker Intel had begun using its newest and most expensive machine, the High NA EUV system, in production – a first for the technology. The machines cost more than €350 million each.\n\n###### Thank you for donating to DutchNews.nl.\n\nWe could not provide the Dutch News service, and keep it free of charge, without the generous support of our readers. Your donations allow us to report on issues you tell us matter, and provide you with a summary of the most important Dutch news each day.\n\n[Make a donation](/donate-to-dutchnews-nl)", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/asml-raises-2026-sales-forecast-again-on-booming-ai-chip-demand", "canonical_source": "https://www.dutchnews.nl/2026/07/asml-raises-2026-sales-forecast-again-on-booming-ai-chip-demand/", "published_at": "2026-07-15 09:09:06+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-15 09:21:09.973781+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-chips", "ai-infrastructure"], "entities": ["ASML", "Intel", "US", "China", "High NA EUV"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/asml-raises-2026-sales-forecast-again-on-booming-ai-chip-demand", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/asml-raises-2026-sales-forecast-again-on-booming-ai-chip-demand.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/asml-raises-2026-sales-forecast-again-on-booming-ai-chip-demand.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/asml-raises-2026-sales-forecast-again-on-booming-ai-chip-demand.jsonld"}}