ASML, the world's leading supplier of advanced chip-manufacturing equipment, lowered its 2025 net sales guidance to 30-35 billion euros (from a prior higher range) and signaled a sharp drop in China revenue from 29% of total sales in 2023 to approximately 20% in 2025. The decline is driven by post-stockpiling demand collapse: Chinese chipmakers front-loaded purchases of ASML's DUV (deep ultraviolet) machines ahead of U.S. and Dutch export restrictions, and that artificial demand spike is reversing. ASML's CFO cited U.S. export curbs as a primary reason for the cautious China outlook. For financial institutions, this marks the first major OEM signal that geopolitical controls are now producing measurable top-line compression rather than merely capping upside growth.
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