{"id":12738,"date":"2025-09-09T13:20:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T12:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rewirenow.com\/?post_type=press&#038;p=12738"},"modified":"2026-06-23T17:38:53","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T16:38:53","slug":"asml-ceo-europes-strategic-autonomy-is-not-the-goal-of-the-mistral-investment","status":"publish","type":"press","link":"https:\/\/rewirenow.com\/en\/resources\/press\/asml-ceo-europes-strategic-autonomy-is-not-the-goal-of-the-mistral-investment\/","title":{"rendered":"ASML CEO: Europe&#8217;s strategic autonomy is not the goal of the Mistral investment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n<div class=\"at-spacer at-spacer--6a67de70699e6\" style=\"background-color: transparent\">\n<style>\n\/* Ultrawide *\/\n.at-spacer--6a67de70699e6 {\n    height: 80px;\n}\n\n\/* Desktop *\/\n@media (max-width: 1920px) {\n    .at-spacer--6a67de70699e6 {\n        height: 80px;\n    }\n}\n\n\/* Laptop *\/\n@media (max-width: 1024px) {\n    .at-spacer--6a67de70699e6 {\n        height: 60px;\n    }\n}\n\n\/* Mobile *\/\n@media (max-width: 767px) {\n    .at-spacer--6a67de70699e6 {\n        height: 40px;\n    }\n}\n<\/style>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:100%\"><section class=\"container-block   \"  style=\"\" >\r\n        <div class=\"block  container  container--default  width-under--mobile width-under--tablet width-under--laptop  wysiwyg\">\r\n        \n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>Amsterdam, 9 Sep 2025<\/strong>. Published in Het Financieele Dagblad, this article reports on ASML&#8217;s \u20ac1.3bn investment in French AI company Mistral. ASML CEO Christophe Fouquet insists the rationale is purely commercial: each ASML machine generates roughly one terabyte of data per day, and Mistral&#8217;s models \u2014 which can be run in a fully controlled environment without data leaving ASML \u2014 offer a way to extract far more value from that data than current software allows. Fouquet explicitly distances the deal from European sovereignty motives, though he acknowledges that if it contributes to that goal, so much the better. Rewire CEO Wouter Huygen is less convinced, seeing geopolitical logic alongside the commercial case \u2014 with Huygen describing it as &#8220;two birds, one stone.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><b><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/fd.nl\/bedrijfsleven\/1569378\/asml-ceo-strategische-autonomie-van-europa-is-niet-doel-investering-mistral\">Read the full article in <\/a><\/b><strong><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/fd.nl\/bedrijfsleven\/1569378\/asml-ceo-strategische-autonomie-van-europa-is-niet-doel-investering-mistral\">Het Financieele Dagblad [in Dutch]<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\r\n    <\/div>\r\n<\/section><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":12800,"template":"","class_list":["post-12738","press","type-press","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>ASML CEO: Europe&#039;s strategic autonomy is not the goal of the Mistral investment | Rewire | Data &amp; 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