# ASML — The machine behind AI chips

A 54-second explainer with no voiceover. It starts in a chat window and follows an AI's chips down to one company, ASML. Cost, shipping size, wavelength, laser-plasma light, vacuum mirrors and export headlines are told through archive photos, flat diagrams and big type. It ends on a map zooming into Veldhoven.

- Code: EX-0016
- Kind: Explainer
- Format: Other
- Brand: ASML
- Length: 54.3s · 24 beats · 26.5 beats/min · 24 hard cuts
- Industry: Hardware, AI
- Style: Flat 2D, Big type, Kinetic type, Data viz, Maps, Serif type, Fast cutting, No voiceover, Music-led
- Original: https://x.com/drecamz/status/2103184506329170373
- Full breakdown: https://cutmap.co/v/asml-the-machine-behind-ai-chips

## The breakdown

The full breakdown has eleven sheets: Snapshot, Opening, Structure, Timeline, Rhythm, Look, Movement, Sound & words, Why it works, Production, Build brief. It is available to Cutmap Pro members at https://cutmap.co/v/asml-the-machine-behind-ai-chips.