{
  "id": 3069112,
  "title": "Which of these companies once owned meaningful chunks of TSMC, ASML, and NXP – and today owns none of them?",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/24/which-of-these-companies-once-owned-meaningful-chunks-of-tsmc-asml",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-08-24T16:35:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "TechSpot",
    "slug": "techspot",
    "url": "https://www.techspot.com/trivia/181-which-company-once-owned-tsmc-asml-nxp/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "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.",
  "summary": "Imagine owning stakes in three companies now worth a combined $2.6 trillion... and selling all of them before it mattered. Read Entire Article",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}