Why ASML's investment in AI company Mistral is 'extremely strategic'

The production of computer chips has become so complex that software has come to play an increasingly important role.
ASML expects that artificial intelligence (AI) will be of great importance in making chip machines more productive.
The €1.3 billion investment in French Mistral AI has nothing to do with geopolitical pressure, says ASML, but is actually very strategic.

ASML's €1.3 billion investment this week in the French AI company Mistral exudes geopolitics and European sovereignty. But nothing could be further from the truth, ASML insists. The investment is "extremely strategic" for the chip machine manufacturer. Without powerful software and AI, the increasingly complex chip machines will soon make too many errors.