[kgeist]

ASML, which is based in the Netherlands, produces chip-making machines which TSMC and everyone else use to produce said chips. I think they got some expertise too :)

[nine_k]

This is so, but ASML does not produce chips. There's a difference between e.g. building an airplane and piloting an airplane.

[joe_mamba]

ASML doesn't make chips, they make the machines.