Which of these companies once owned meaningful chunks of TSMC, ASML, and NXP – and today owns none of them?
Imagine owning stakes in three companies now worth a combined $2.6 trillion... and selling all of them before it mattered. Read Entire Article
Royal Philips, once a major player in the semiconductor industry, has divested itself of its interests in key companies like ASML, TSMC, and NXP. The Dutch electronics giant was a co-founder of ASML in 1984, holding a 24% stake until it divested its position through a public offering in 2000 and sold the remainder in subsequent years.
Philips was also the largest shareholder in TSMC, with ownership peaking at 27-28% in the late 1990s. The company eventually liquidated its TSMC stake in the late 2000s. NXP, on the other hand, was an in-house semiconductor division of Philips that Philips sold to a private-equity consortium in 2006. Had Philips retained its stakes in ASML and TSMC, those investments alone would be worth approximately $700 billion as of 2026, dwarfing Philips' current market cap.
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