There is a machine in the Netherlands that is essentially the heartbeat of the modern world. It’s called an Extreme Ultraviolet (EUV) lithography tool , and it’s built by ASML .

Without these machines, we don’t have the high-end chips that power your iPhone, your AI models, or your data centers. Each unit costs roughly $400 million , has 100,000+ parts, and requires three Boeing 747s just to deliver it.

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But right now, the most coveted product coming out of ASML is the 1,000-piece Lego version .

The project started with Rick Lenssen, a data analyst at ASML , with a hobby of designing custom Lego sets, and applied it to his day job.…