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These freight containers brings ASML's 0.55 NA wafer-maker to Intel

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Container manufacturer VRR delivered its largest freight container ever to chipmaker ASML last week.
The container, along with two previously made ones, will be used to transport ASML's TWINSCAN EXE:5200 wafer-maker to Intel's chip factories.

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Intel ordered the new TWINSCAN from ASML earlier this year. The machine can produce more than 200 wafers per hour,
with its so-called 'High-NA EUV' technology (where NA stands for 'numerical aperture' and EUV for 'extreme ultraviolet').
The higher aperture of 0.55 allows the TWINSCAN to produce wafers with higher precision,
resulting in even smaller circuits and ultimately higher chip performance. Intel plans to start producing 0.55-NA wafers in 2025.

It will be a heavy machine, because each container has to be able to support the weight of a London double-decker bus.
Furthermore, they are more than 7 meters long, 3 meters wide and all three consist of about 30,000 parts.

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So the idea is to ship ASML's new wafer production machines in the containers to Intel.
The three of them should be able to fit in the cargo area of a B747F aircraft.

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What happens to the containers after that is unknown,
although at the beginning of this week rumors were still circulating about a visit by Samsung vice president Lee Jae-yong,
who may also have ASML machines in mind.


 
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