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    Home»Sections»Consumer electronics»TSMC to get ASML’s latest and greatest as it speeds towards 2nm chips

    TSMC to get ASML’s latest and greatest as it speeds towards 2nm chips

    Consumer electronics By Agency Staff17 June 2022
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    An illustration released by ASML shows an impression of how the pilot model of ASML’s newest product, a “High NA EUV” lithography tool, will look on the outside when it is finished. The machines, about the size of a double-decker bus, will cost $400-million each

    Taiwan’s TSMC, the world’s biggest chip maker, will have the next version of ASML Holding’s most advanced chip-making tool in 2024.

    The tool, called “high-NA EUV”, produces beams of focused light that create the microscopic circuitry on computer chips used in phones, laptops, cars and artificial intelligence devices such as smart speakers. EUV stands for extreme ultraviolet, the wavelength of light used by ASML’s most advanced machines.

    “TSMC will bring in high-NA EUV scanners in 2024 to develop the associated infrastructure and patterning solution needed for customers to fuel innovation,” said YJ Mii, senior vice president of research and development, during TSMC’s technology symposium in Silicon Valley.

    The importance of TSMC having it in 2024 means they get to the most advanced technology faster

    Mii did not say when the device, the second generation of extreme ultraviolet lithography tools for making smaller and faster chips, would be used for mass production. TSMC rival Intel has said it will use the machines in production by 2025 and that it would be the first to receive the machine.

    As Intel enters the business of making chips that other companies design, it will be competing with TSMC for those customers.

    Kevin Zhang, TSMC senior vice president of business development, clarified that TSMC would not be ready for production with the new high-NA EUV tool in 2024 but that it would be used mostly for research with partners.

    ‘Next major innovation’

    “The importance of TSMC having it in 2024 means they get to the most advanced technology faster,” said TechInsights’ chip economist Dan Hutcheson, who was at the symposium. “High-NA EUV is the next major innovation in the technology that will put the chip technology at the lead.”

    On Thursday, TSMC also gave more details on the technology for its 2-nanometre chips, which it said are on track for volume production in 2025. TSMC said it has spent 15 years developing so-called “nanosheet” transistor technology to improve speed and power efficiency and will use it for the first time in its 2nm chips.  — Jane Lanhee Lee, (c) 2022 Reuters

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