<story><title>ASML reports fire at its Berlin factory</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/technology/asml-reports-fire-its-berlin-factory-2022-01-03/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>CookiesNCream23</author><text>I work in the industry and have worked in a fab. Here is some insight.&lt;p&gt;We are taught that fabs are not treated as factories but as hazardous chemical storage plants. On top of that, we work with high pressure and high power systems.&lt;p&gt;Fires have accounted for the most damage to fabs over the years; however, this situation is different.&lt;p&gt;The site is not a fab, it is a ASML manufacturing plant. This plant does not produce chips. It produces parts for the ASML machines. It makes the tables the wafer moves on and the frame the mask moves on.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=jH6Urfqt_d4&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=jH6Urfqt_d4&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikichip.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;mask&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikichip.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;mask&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Downstream effects of this fire will reduce the uptime of the machines and the delivery of promised machines to our customers.&lt;p&gt;To plug ASML. Speaking as a new grad. If you are in hardware, physics, nanoscience, simulations. ASML is the best company to work at if you want to learn. I get exposure to maybe the most complex engineering system is the world. The scale, complexity, details, and just hardcore technology is mind-blowing. I am plugging ASML because it is not widely know and I would love if fellow engineers had the opportunity to work here. I absolutely love the work I do.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>collegeburner</author><text>This definitely doesn&amp;#x27;t match how I heard some software is done there: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=18463181&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=18463181&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>ASML reports fire at its Berlin factory</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/technology/asml-reports-fire-its-berlin-factory-2022-01-03/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>CookiesNCream23</author><text>I work in the industry and have worked in a fab. Here is some insight.&lt;p&gt;We are taught that fabs are not treated as factories but as hazardous chemical storage plants. On top of that, we work with high pressure and high power systems.&lt;p&gt;Fires have accounted for the most damage to fabs over the years; however, this situation is different.&lt;p&gt;The site is not a fab, it is a ASML manufacturing plant. This plant does not produce chips. It produces parts for the ASML machines. It makes the tables the wafer moves on and the frame the mask moves on.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=jH6Urfqt_d4&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=jH6Urfqt_d4&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikichip.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;mask&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikichip.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;mask&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Downstream effects of this fire will reduce the uptime of the machines and the delivery of promised machines to our customers.&lt;p&gt;To plug ASML. Speaking as a new grad. If you are in hardware, physics, nanoscience, simulations. ASML is the best company to work at if you want to learn. I get exposure to maybe the most complex engineering system is the world. The scale, complexity, details, and just hardcore technology is mind-blowing. I am plugging ASML because it is not widely know and I would love if fellow engineers had the opportunity to work here. I absolutely love the work I do.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jokteur</author><text>I am currently beginning a PhD in physics (mathematical modeling, simulation on HPC) in Switzerland, and I am afraid that after my PhD, I won&amp;#x27;t find a job that really pleases me. These last years, I came under the impression that you currently can only find ML driven software engineering jobs (I am exagerating of course), and having done quite a bit of ML and software engineering, I now know that I don&amp;#x27;t want my future job be like this.&lt;p&gt;A company like ASML gives me hope. Do you know by chance if there are similar companies (complex engineering, with physics, maths, chemistry, computer science, ...) that are located in Switzerland ?</text></comment>