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ASML DIGITAL

DIGITAL INFRASTRUCTURE AUDIT UPDATED 2026-09-23
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Enterprise Technology Stack & Vendor Relationships

ASML Holding N.V. is a Netherlands-incorporated holding company with principal executive offices in Veldhoven that operates through subsidiaries, including entities in Israel.1, 2

ASML’s 2025 filing states that a limited portion of its suppliers, customers, and support teams are based in Israel, without naming those counterparties, contracts, data flows, systems, or end users.1

ASML’s current careers material describes Israel-based customer-support engineers in Kiryat Gat and Migdal Ha’emek as serving unnamed “high-profile clients” through installation, maintenance, and continuous improvement of ASML lithography machines at customer sites.3 The identified beneficiaries are therefore unnamed customer sites; the documented downstream result is lithography-machine installation, maintenance, and improvement, not a documented digital-security, surveillance, military, or state function.3

ASML’s general customer-support materials describe a worldwide service model using deterministic diagnostics, predictive maintenance and upgrade methods, customer production information, performance-monitoring software, a best-practices database, and a centralized customer portal.4 The source does not establish that those systems, data, databases, portal operations, or support processes are hosted in Israel or accessed by the Israeli offices.3, 4

No public evidence identified of ASML licensing, subscribing to, or integrating identified Israeli-origin enterprise-software vendors, including Check Point, Wiz, SentinelOne, CyberArk, NICE, Verint, Claroty, or Palo Alto Networks.1, 5

No public evidence identified of a publicly named systems integrator, IT-outsourcing provider, or digital-transformation programme at ASML that specifies deployment of Israeli-origin technology.1, 5

ASML’s January 2022 High-NA announcement documents collaboration and a purchase order with Intel Corporation, rather than a contract with Intel Israel or an Israeli state body.6

Surveillance, Biometrics & Retail Technology

No public evidence identified that ASML uses Israeli-origin facial recognition, biometric identification, behavioural analytics, gait analysis, predictive-policing, sentiment-monitoring, social-media-monitoring, or workforce-surveillance products.1, 5

No public evidence identified of ASML’s direct or third-party deployment of products from Trigo, BriefCam, AnyVision/Oosto, Trax, or comparable named Israeli-origin providers.1, 5

The reviewed disclosures and location materials do not identify ASML equipment, offices, or services as surveillance, biometric, retail-analytics, or security-monitoring infrastructure.1, 7, 3

Cloud Infrastructure, Data Residency & Sovereign Cloud Participation

ASML lists Israeli offices in Kiryat Gat and Migdal Ha’emek, at Mevo Sivan Street 1 and Ramat Gabriel Industry Area 5 respectively, with contact information but no stated cloud, data-centre, colocation, data-processing, or data-residency role.7

ASML’s 2025 country-by-country report identifies ASML Israel (2001) Ltd. as an Israeli constituent entity and lists a Cymer B.V. permanent establishment in Israel within the group’s 2025 reporting perimeter.8 The report does not describe those entities’ specific functions, customers, staffing, data flows, or public-sector relationships.8, 9

ASML’s 2024 annual report described a customer-support organization in Israel, while its 2025 filing refers more generally to support teams, suppliers, and customers there.1, 10 Current careers material continues to describe Israel-based customer support as of September 2026, without identifying individual service dates, customers, or end users.3

These disclosures do not identify Israeli data storage, routing, processing, cloud-residency, sovereign-cloud services, or the operational remit of either listed office.1, 7, 10, 3, 4

No public evidence identified that ASML participates in Project Nimbus, operates Israeli data-centre infrastructure or cloud-region operations, or provides digital-sovereignty or data-residency services to Israeli state institutions or military bodies.1, 7, 5

No public evidence identified of the storage location, routing, jurisdictional accessibility, or Israeli processing of CustomerNet, performance-monitoring data, customer production information, or ASML’s best-practices database.3, 4

Defence, Intelligence & Security Sector Technology Relationships

No public evidence identified of a contract, partnership, procurement award, or service agreement between ASML and the Israeli Ministry of Defense, IDF, intelligence agencies, or another Israeli security body.1, 5, 11

No public evidence identified that ASML supplied offensive cyber capabilities, zero-day or exploit tools, surveillance systems, digital weapons, targeting technology, autonomous target generation, automated threat detection, or autonomous tracking systems to Israeli state actors.1, 5

The 2013 Israeli Competition Authority merger record states that ASML was active in Israel through ASML Israel (2001) Ltd., but does not establish current activities, customers, government contracting, or security-sector end use.12 ASML Israel (2001) Ltd.’s inclusion in 2025 group reporting supports continued group inclusion during that reporting period without establishing a defence or government relationship.8, 12

No public evidence identified that ASML products or services were supplied in settlements or to settlement authorities in the reviewed UN, civil-society, Israeli Competition Authority, European Commission, company, and targeted-search materials.5, 12, 13, 14, 11

The current Israel-based support finding does not identify an Israeli state, military, intelligence, security, occupation, or settler beneficiary or use.3

AI, Algorithmic & Autonomous Systems

The European Commission’s 14AMI record identifies ASML Netherlands B.V. as coordinator of a Horizon semiconductor R&D project running from 1 May 2023 through 31 October 2026.11

The 14AMI participant list includes Applied Materials Israel Ltd., Bruker Technologies Ltd. (Israel), and Nova Ltd. (Israel), and describes work involving EUV lithography, metrology, process integration, semiconductor devices, and an AI-based vacuum-chamber-efficiency sensor.11

The European Commission’s separate 14ACMOS record identifies ASML Netherlands B.V. as coordinator and includes Applied Materials Israel Ltd., Bruker Technologies Ltd., KLA-Tencor Corporation (Israel), and Nova Ltd. among its 23 participants.15 Its recorded work concerns semiconductor, lithography, metrology, equipment, and related 14-angstrom CMOS technology.15

The 14AMI and 14ACMOS records establish multilateral EU research participation with Israeli private-sector semiconductor companies.11, 15 The documented beneficiaries are the named consortium participants; the documented downstream result is semiconductor R&D, including the specified AI-based efficiency sensor in 14AMI.11, 15 Neither record identifies an Israeli ministry, IDF, intelligence agency, settlement authority, or other security customer, and neither establishes a bilateral ASML procurement, supply, intellectual-property licence, military deployment, surveillance deployment, cloud service, or targeting technology.11, 15

A May 2025 TU/e-affiliated report discusses ASML’s Horizon-project participation alongside Israeli entities, but its broader assertions concerning Israeli arms-industry linkages do not independently establish an ASML–Israeli-state or ASML–military relationship.16, 11

No public evidence identified that ASML has provided AI, machine-learning, computer-vision, autonomous decision-support, target-generation, automated threat-detection, or autonomous-tracking systems to Israeli state, military, intelligence, or security bodies.1, 5

No public evidence identified that ASML models or platforms were trained on, or given access to, Israeli or occupied-territory civilian, communications, or surveillance-derived datasets.1, 5

Technology Ecosystem & R&D Footprint

ASML maintains a documented Israeli corporate footprint through its listed Kiryat Gat and Migdal Ha’emek locations, ASML Israel (2001) Ltd., and the reported Cymer B.V. Israeli permanent establishment.7, 8

ASML’s SEC Exhibit 8.1 lists ASML Israel (2001) Ltd., Kiryat Gat, as a directly or indirectly wholly owned subsidiary of ASML Holding N.V.2 The same exhibit identifies Carl Zeiss SMT Holding GmbH & Co. KG and HighTechXL Group B.V. as associates; neither is Israeli-domiciled.2

Public disclosures identify Israeli support teams and customer-support activity but do not publicly describe an Israeli R&D centre, innovation lab, accelerator, engineering headcount, product portfolio, customer list, or data architecture.1, 7, 10, 3

No public evidence identified of an ASML acquisition of an Israeli-origin technology company, strategic investment in an Israeli startup or venture fund, or material ASML patent, licensing, or co-development arrangement with Technion, Hebrew University, Weizmann Institute, or another Israeli-domiciled research institution.1, 10, 11, 15

The 14AMI and 14ACMOS consortia establish multilateral EU research participation with Israeli companies, rather than a bilateral procurement, supply, intellectual-property licensing, acquisition, investment, or Israeli-state relationship.11, 15

ASML’s principal executive offices are in Veldhoven, Netherlands, and its ordinary shares trade on Nasdaq under the symbol “ASML.”1

No public evidence identified in the reviewed current corporate and SEC records of a parent company above ASML Holding N.V.1, 2

Civil Society Scrutiny & Regulatory History

The supplied document-scoped full-text scan found no ASML mention in the reviewed UN Special Rapporteur report A/HRC/59/23, the 2023 OHCHR settlements report, the specified settlement-database materials, or the listed NGO and civil-society reports.13, 14 This no-mention finding is limited to the reviewed documents and does not establish absence from all UN, NGO, settlement-related, or sector-wide records.13, 14

No public evidence identified of an organised boycott, divestment, or sanctions campaign specifically directed at ASML for technology provision to Israeli state bodies or occupied territories, or of an ASML response on that basis.1, 13, 14

No public evidence identified of regulatory inquiries, legal proceedings, export-control enforcement, or sanctions investigations concerning ASML technology sales or services to Israeli state entities.1, 5

ASML uses a two-tier governance structure in which the Board of Management manages the company and the Supervisory Board supervises it.17, 18, 19

ASML’s current Board of Management comprises Christophe Fouquet, President and CEO; Roger Dassen, CFO; Frédéric Schneider-Maunoury, COO; Wayne Allan, Chief Strategic Sourcing & Procurement Officer; Jim Koonmen, Chief Customer Officer; and Marco Pieters, CTO.17 ASML states that its CEO is the Board of Management’s sole president and chair.17

ASML’s current Supervisory Board comprises Nils Andersen, Chair; Terri Kelly, Vice Chair; Birgit Conix; Mark Durcan; Warren East; Karien van Gennip; Jack de Kreij; Benjamin Loh; and An Steegen.18 ASML describes all current Supervisory Board members as independent under the Dutch Corporate Governance Code.18

The current Board of Management roster differs from the 2025-reporting-period structure because the 2025 corporate-governance report anticipated Marco Pieters’ appointment and records the subsequent 2026 transition.17, 19

ASML’s major-holder table, based on SEC and Dutch AFM filings as of 18 February 2026, reports BlackRock, Inc. at 6.83% and Capital Research and Management Company at 5.09%, with no disclosed shareholder at or above 10%.20 Its aggregate Board of Management and Supervisory Board holding figure of 0.01% is dated and should not be treated as a current aggregate for the subsequently changed board.20, 17, 18

ASML describes an independent foundation with an option to acquire cumulative preference shares for continuity and defensive purposes, but the reviewed record does not establish exercise of that option or a current beneficial-ownership stake by the foundation.20

No public evidence identified, after targeted searches of the current Board of Management and Supervisory Board roster, related official biographies, and major-holder disclosures, of qualifying equity, board, advisory, foundation, family-office, or disclosed substantial-holder interests in Israeli cyber, surveillance, AI, cloud, biometric, data, or digital-security firms.20, 17, 18 This is source-scoped: the bounded research did not complete person-by-person company-register, securities-filing, charity-register, political-contribution, lobbying, or private-investment searches for every named principal.20, 17, 18

Official biographies disclose some non-Israeli outside roles, including Roger Dassen’s strategic-committee role at Mistral AI and Mark Durcan’s role at a private AI startup, without identifying those roles as interests in Israeli-domiciled firms or establishing an Israeli state, military, intelligence, security, occupation, or settler nexus.17, 18 The disclosed outside roles of several supervisory directors likewise do not identify an Israeli cyber, surveillance, AI, cloud, biometric, data, or digital-security company.18, 19

Rice University identifies Mark Durcan with Micron Technology Foundation, Inc., but the reviewed source does not establish his control of that foundation, its grant recipients, or an Israel, Palestine, or political-advocacy connection.21 No principal-level conclusion is made on charitable recipients because the required current and prior IRS Form 990/990-PF grant-schedule review was not completed.21

No confirmed qualifying principal-linked Israeli technology relationship was identified; consequently, no beneficiary, downstream digital result, or Israeli state, military, intelligence, security, occupation, or settler use can be documented from the reviewed record.20, 17, 18

Footnotes

  1. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/937966/000162828026011378/asml-20251231.htm ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9 ↩10 ↩11 ↩12 ↩13 ↩14 ↩15 ↩16 ↩17 ↩18 ↩19 ↩20

  2. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/937966/000162828026011378/exhibit81.htm ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  3. https://www.asml.com/en/careers/teams/customer-support/customer-support-heroes-karima ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9

  4. https://www.asml.com/en/products/customer-support ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  5. https://ourbrand.asml.com/m/6ea363f69344ebd4/original/asml-2025-annual-report-based-on-ifrs.pdf ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9 ↩10 ↩11

  6. https://www.asml.com/en/news/press-releases/2022/intel-and-asml-strengthen-their-collaboration-to-drive-high-na-into-manufacturing-in-2025 ↩

  7. https://www.asml.com/company/about-asml/locations ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6

  8. https://ourbrand.asml.com/m/44bf04d7ecacdbb6/original/asml-2025-public-country-by-country-report.pdf ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  9. https://ourbrand.asml.com/m/642da1f825f36c01/original/asml-2025-tax-report.pdf ↩

  10. https://ourbrand.asml.com/m/1d935e9653a216d7/original/2024-Annual-Report-based-on-IFRS.pdf ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  11. https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101111948 ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9 ↩10

  12. https://www.gov.il/BlobFolder/legalinfo/9131/he/mergers_file_13022013.pdf ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  13. https://docs.un.org/en/A/HRC/59/23 ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  14. https://docs.un.org/en/A/HRC/53/22 ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  15. https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101096772 ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7

  16. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/6231c0ab39d6533832f5c4fe/t/6825c911cc59b46c57496384/1747306772748/TU_E_ties.pdf ↩

  17. https://www.asml.com/en/company/governance/board-of-management ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9

  18. https://www.asml.com/en/company/governance/supervisory-board ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9

  19. https://ourbrand.asml.com/m/24fb6cd4a43aa039/original/asml-2025-annual-report-corporate-governance-section.pdf ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  20. https://www.asml.com/en/investors/shares ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6

  21. https://profiles.rice.edu/board-trustees/d-mark-durcan-83 ↩ ↩2