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ASML Raises Full-Year Outlook as Artificial Intelligence Demand Drives Strong Sales

ASML reported second-quarter net sales of nine billion three hundred million euros and increased its full-year revenue forecast to forty-five billion euros, underscoring sustained global demand for advanced lithography systems and reinforcing the Netherlands' central role in the semiconductor supply chain.
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