<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>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></item><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>skrebbel</author><text>FWIW (i wrote that comment, also btw woa I&amp;#x27;m super flattered to be quoted like that!): note that it&amp;#x27;s based on my, by now, pretty dated inside knowledge (~6y). They might&amp;#x27;ve improved since (though judging by the sibling comments, maybe not).</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>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></item><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>CookiesNCream23</author><text>Definitely two types of software here. Everything about that post is spot on.&lt;p&gt;Internal software is messy. Testing is also messy. Lots of things need to be automated. End of the day, it’s a bunch of hardware people.&lt;p&gt;The exciting stuff are the physics simulations. Modeling how lens aberrations affect the light that passes through and how to correct for that.</text></comment>