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

Rick Lenssen, a data analyst at ASML - the Dutch company that makes the machines that print the chips in every phone and ...

The $400 million machine that spawned the world’s most coveted Lego set

ASML makes the indispensable tools that produce semiconductors. But what everyone really wants is the plastic version built ...
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ASML Sells ‘Lego’ Model of Most Advanced Chip Machine to Workers

ASML Holding NV, the Dutch maker of the world’s most advanced chipmaking machines, was selling “Lego” replicas of its most prized product to employees. When asked about the miniature models of its ...
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Here's a McDonald's Vending Machine, Made out of Lego

So Lego have this ‘Mindstorm’ sets, which come with actual programmable computer chip, so grown-ass adults can make working robots and stuff. Out of Lego (Seriously, when exactly did it become ...