Not only the American company IBM and the Belgian research organization Imec are involved in reviving the Japanese semiconductor industry to its best, but also French specialists from the Leti Institute, as explained Nikkei. They will help the...
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The competitive market is designed in such a way that when some companies lose under certain conditions, others predictably win, and the situation with sanctions against the Chinese semiconductor industry is no exception. The Japanese company Nikon...
In the middle of last month, the Japanese company Canon began supplying customers with equipment for printing 5nm chips without photolithography. This month, representatives of the Japanese manufacturer said that such devices would be about ten...
From January 1 next year, the Dutch holding ASML will lose the ability to supply to China part of its lithography scanners designed to work with DUV technology, but other equipment for sophisticated technological processes will be launched this year...
This week, South Korea’s Samsung Electronics told investors its immediate plans to transition to production of products using new stages of its lithography technologies. Products using the second generation of 3nm process technology (SF3) as...
Tightened sanctions from the USA, Japan and the Netherlands, which are the world leaders in the lithography equipment market, are forcing Chinese semiconductor manufacturers to increasingly turn to their compatriots for such products, and the share...
American authorities’ lack of concern about the ability of Chinese companies to source lithography equipment from Japan has long been based on the assumption that local manufacturers provide solutions primarily for sophisticated lithography...
From a purely formal perspective, Samsung Electronics was not only several months ahead of TSMC in implementing 3nm process technology, but also significantly ahead of its competitors in switching to the use of circular gate transistors (GAAFET)...
Despite the active purchase of foreign equipment that is not yet subject to sanctions from Chinese chipmakers and some progress in import substitution, the local semiconductor industry still cannot boast of having a sufficient production base for...
The expansion of Ireland’s Intel facilities has been plagued by challenges and delays during the pandemic. Some local employees were sent on long, unpaid leave in December last year, but the first EUV lithography scanner installed at the fab...
So far, industry sources with varying degrees of certainty have mostly spoken of Apple being on TSMC’s customer list 3nm process technology. This week, MediaTek decided to “step out of the shadows,” admitting that 3nm Dimensity...
Lithographic machines that combine operation with ultra-hard ultraviolet (EUV) radiation and high numerical aperture (high NA) are a necessary tool for mastering the so-called “Angstrom” engineering processes with standards below 2 nm, i...
The so-called second generation of the 3nm process technology carried out by TSMC usually appeared in the Taiwanese company’s internal documents under the designation N3E and was tied for implementation in the second half of 2023. At the last...
At the latest quarterly earnings conference, CC Wei, CEO of TSMC, said that the company is the first manufacturer to mass-produce high-yield 3nm products. At the same time, the demand for this service exceeds TSMC’s capabilities, and by the...
The quarterly report of the Dutch holding ASML is predictable attracted attention Exchange participant, as this company is the largest supplier of lithographic scanners used in the manufacture of semiconductor components. Results for the quarter...
Nvidia reportedthat ASML, TSMC and Synopsys adopt the newly introduced cuLitho library. The tool is integrated into the software for designing photomasks used in the manufacture of chips and significantly speeds up the production of lithographic...
Plunging PC revenues and a loss of position in the server segment put Intel in a difficult position to raise funds for a massive business transformation that would see it regain its technology leadership in the second half of the decade. Management...
The Dutch holding remains the main supplier of advanced lithography scanners used in semiconductor chip production. In the past quarter, the company posted sales of 6.43 billion euros and net income of 1.82 billion euros, beating analysts’...
Excerpts from official documents published in local media confirm that the ban on the supply of advanced lithographic equipment from the Netherlands to China in 2020 was imposed at the urging of that country’s Ministry of Defense, which in...
The demand for contract manufacturing services for semiconductor components is now not homogeneous in its structure due to the processes taking place on the market during the pandemic. The main negative impact on the market for such services...
