When she isn’t hiking, planting, practicing Taekwondo with her son, or coaching his soccer team, Monika Chauhan—Design Engineering and Architecture Group Manager for the mechanical engineering department at ASML—spends her time coaching women through the Society of Women Engineers (SWE). Driven by workplace challenges, passionate about advancing women’s career development, and deeply interested in the…
Growing up in Kolkata, India, Shilpita Biswas quickly realized that software engineering and Silicon Valley were at the heart of global technological innovation and progress. After earning her bachelor’s degree in electronics and communications engineering, she worked as an IT engineer in Chennai, a city in southern India. A few years later, Biswas decided to…
The typical CEO spends their time attending meetings, strategizing with their board, and, in the case of the boss of semiconductor giant ASML, batting off questions about how to get to where he is. It’s an understandable query. As CEO of the Fortune 500 Europe lithography group, Christophe Fouquet is in charge of one of…
ASML (ASML) stock rose as much as 5% in premarket trading after the Dutch semiconductor equipment company posted better than expected fourth quarter earnings and its CEO dismissed concerns that DeepSeek’s latest breakthrough would hurt demand for AI chips. ASML invented the technology required to make the world’s most advanced artificial intelligence chips and is…
