Brainport’s Next Chapter: Building a European Customer Base

New opportunities closer to home

ASML’s European market has room to grow. XIVER offers a concrete example: the former Philips business has acquired an ASML lithography system to expand its production capabilities in Eindhoven. Alongside developments in AI and photonics, it shows how Brainport’s technology can help European companies build more of their own industrial capacity.

Axelera AI, PhotonDelta and SMART Photonics bring other parts of that story into view: European companies developing technology, expanding production and finding customers. TU Eindhoven helps prepare the next generation. How are these connections developing and what will turn them into lasting business?


Researchers in a TU Eindhoven-led European project have tested chips designed to bring AI processing closer to the user. With working prototypes and industrial partners involved, the next question is how the technology will find its way into commercial products.


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AI-generated illustration: OpenAI / Altair Media.

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Eindhoven’s Evoluon anchors a conceptual illustration of Brainport’s semiconductor and photonics ecosystem, connecting research, production and European demand.

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