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Why is a $200 Lego set harder to buy than a $400M machine?

Ellsworth Toohey
Apr 22, 2026
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Rick Lenssen, a data analyst at ASML — the Dutch company that makes the machines that print the chips in every phone and laptop — has designed Lego versions of his employer’s $400 million extreme ultraviolet lithography tools. ASML sold 1,355 of his latest model. It sold six of the real thing.

The actual EUV machines have more …

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