ASML is the Next Bottle Neck in Chip Manufacturing

[the54thvoid]

ASML is monopolistic. Using the billion $ investment it had received from Intel some 6 years ago, it bought Cymer of San Diego, CA that makes the most critical / innovative part of ASML’s EUV tool. That part is the generator of the Excimer Laser needed for EUV Litho. Biden must get ASML to divest Cymer so they can supply Cannon & Nikon as well.

Intel invested in 2012. A decade ago. ASML's first EUV was released to commercial buyers in 2013. In 2013 ASML bought Cymer, which operates independently within ASML and is still HQ'd in California.

Link here for actual info:

EUV lithography revisited

After three decades of development, a new generation of lithography machines has now been shipped; it uses extreme ultraviolet (EUV) light at a wavelength of 13.5 nm to make silicon...

www.laserfocusworld.com

 

[chip_monk]

I expect that those who post on scientific and technical matters to have the initiative to do their homework on their own