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7. ASML Holding N.V. (NASDAQ:ASML)

Market Capitalization: $268 Billion 

ASML Holding N.V. (NASDAQ:ASML) makes and sells advanced semiconductor equipment systems. The company was among a host of semi-stocks that recently received letters from US lawmakers over their business deals with Chinese firms. In the letter, the chief of the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, John Moolenaar, and Ranking Member Raja Krishnamoorthi, voiced their concern that the semiconductor equipment firms could be used to give the People’s Liberation Army an advantage to build advanced processors and reinforce China’s domestic chip capacity.

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