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June 23, 2026
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The $400 million machine powering the future of chipmaking

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Jos Benschop is climbing a ladder to get to the top of his newest machine. The contraption is the size of a double-decker bus-more than 150 tons of gleaming precision-milled aluminum covered in thousands of snaking tubes, colored cables, and pressurized tanks. From the ground, it looks like a...

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  • #The contraption is the size of a double-decker bus-more than 150 tons of gleaming precision-milled aluminum covered in thousands of snaking tubes, colored cables, and pressurized tanks.
  • #The contraption is the size of a double-decker bus-more than 150 tons of gleaming precision-milled aluminum covered in thousands of snaking tubes, colored cables, and pressurized tanks.
The $400 million machine powering the future of chipmaking

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