On January 20, Peter wenningk, CEO of asmai, a Dutch lithography manufacturer, said in an interview on Wednesday that the company plans to increase the total number of employees from the current 31500 to 35000 by the end of this year. He said that the company will recruit more than 4000 new employees in 2021, and the total number of employees by the end of 2022 will increase by nearly 30% compared with the end of 2020 < p > < / P > < p > asmai's goal is to overcome the capacity bottleneck caused by the global chip shortage by recruiting thousands of new employees < p > asmai expects its revenue in the first quarter of 2022 to be lower than analysts' expectations because the company continues to decide to postpone the testing of the lithography machine and conduct final testing and formal acceptance at the customer's site in order to accelerate the delivery speed. In this way, the company will delay the confirmation of revenue until the formal acceptance of the customer, but it can enable the customer to put the lithography machine into production early < p > winningke said that since the market demand is 40% to 50% higher than the company's maximum capacity, it will take two to three years to achieve a balance between supply and demand. He added that with the construction of new factories, there may even be "a certain degree of oversupply" in the chip industry by 2025 or 2026 < p > wenningke said: "we seriously lack mature chip technology, and we need mature manufacturing capacity." (Chen Chen) < / P > < p >