Jul 15, 2020 / NTS GMT
Unidentified Analyst -
Mr. Wennink, the COVID-19 situation had some impact on the previous quarter for ASML. How is the situation today? And how are you managing risk?
Questions and Answers:
Peter T. F. M. Wennink - ASML Holding N.V. - Chairman of the Management Board, President & CEOWell, we are managing risk through our amazing ASML people. If you look at to the challenges that they had to deal with, I mean, they were committed, engaged, creative, and this is why, I think, the company is in pretty good shape. So first of all, thanks to our people.
But I think how do we manage? Yes, I think we have to look at the fact where we're still procuring our parts. We're building our systems, we're shipping them, we're upgrading them. They're servicing our customers and Q2 was not without challenges, especially the first half. I think I want to make a distinction between the first half of the quarter and the second half. First half, we had some supply issues because of lockdowns. Absenteeism around the world. But that, actually, the second half of the quarter