News
As the semiconductor industry continues to advance, it has sparked an arms race among Samsung, Intel, and TSMC in acquiring extreme ultraviolet (EUV) equipment. When asked about when TSMC would adopt the extremely expensive High Numerical Aperture EUV (High-NA EUV) lithography equipment, as per a re...
News
As the industry is entering the Angstrom era with semiconductor giants eagerly applying EUV machines to the advanced nodes, more details about Samsung’s 2nm have surfaced. According to the latest report by TheElec, Samsung’s 2nm process will feature 30% more extreme ultraviolet (EUV) layers than...
News
Lithography machine giant ASML released its financial report for the second quarter of 2024, with net sales amounting to EUR 6.2 billion and net income reaching EUR 1.6 billion. The gross margin was 51.5%. According to the previous financial forecast, net sales for the second quarter were expe...
News
Chul Joo Hwang, Chairman of South Korean semiconductor equipment company Jusung Engineering, recently stated that future semiconductors will stack transistors together, as the expansion of DRAM and logic chips has reached its limit. Stacking transistors like NAND is necessary to overcome these chall...
News
The China Association for Science and Technology (CAST) recently listed challenges facing China's semiconductor industry. However, the list did not include lithography. According to a report from TechNews, it's believed that the move to exclude lithography is more of a political consideration aime...