ASML , a semiconductor industry and stock market giant, has to think smaller. Or maybe bigger.
An optical system is prepared for testing in a vacuum chamber at Carl Zeiss SMT in Oberkochen, Germany, in this undated handout photo. Zeiss is developing optical systems that will go into the newest tool being developed by ASML of the Netherlands to create a new generation of computer chips. Helmut Issler ZEISS/Handout via Reuters, a semiconductor industry and stock market giant, has to think smaller. Or maybe bigger.
Executives at ASML's headquarters in the Dutch town of Veldhoven told Reuters a prototype was on track to be completed in the first half of 2023. They said the company and longtime R&D partner IMEC were setting up a test lab on the spot - a first - so top chipmakers and their suppliers can explore the machine's properties and prepare to use production models as early as 2025.
Industry specialist Dan Hutcheson of VLSI Research, who is not involved with the ASML project, said the new technology - known as a "High-NA" version of EUV - could provide a significant advantage to some chipmakers."So either ASML makes it happen or they don't make it happen," he added. "But if they make it happen, and you don't have your orders and you miss out on this, you've immediately made yourself non-competitive.
Circuitry is now approaching the atomic level, leading to predictions that the end is nigh for "Moore's Law", a famous 1960's observation that the number of transistors on a microchip doubles about every two years. The High-NA machines will be about 30% bigger than their predecessors, which themselves require three Boeing 747s to carry them in sections.
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