ASM International N.V. is a Dutch multinational corporation that designs, manufactures, sells, and services equipment used in the fabrication of semiconductor devices. Its products are utilized by semiconductor manufacturers in fabrication plants for processes such as atomic layer deposition, epitaxy, chemical vapor deposition, and diffusion. The company was founded by Arthur del Prado in 1964. From 2008 until 2020, son of Arthur del Prado, Chuck del Prado was CEO. ASM pioneered important aspects of many established wafer-processing technologies used in industry, including lithography, deposition, ion implantation, single-wafer epitaxy, and in recent years atomic layer deposition. Semiconductor equipment companies ASML, ASM Pacific Technology and Besi are former divisions of ASM. ASM headquarters is located in Almere, the Netherlands. The company has R&D sites in Almere, Helsinki, Leuven, Phoenix, Tama, and Dongtan. Manufacturing primarily occurs in Singapore and Dongtan. ASM also has sales & service offices across the globe, including United States, South Korea, China, Taiwan, Japan, Singapore and Israel. As of 2021, it has 3,312 staff, located in 14 countries. Wikipedia