Jos Benschop is climbing a ladder to get to the top of his newest machine. It's a bit of a schlep. The contraption is the size of a double-decker bus-more than 150 tons of gleaming precision-milled aluminum covered in thousands of snaking tubes, colored cables, and pressurized tanks. From the ground, it looks like a...

This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology. The $400 million machine powering the future of chipmaking It's a bit of a schlep to get to the top of ASML's newest machine. It's about the size of a double-decker...