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Canon, [], launches ASML challenge with machine to make the most advanced chips
- svggrfgovgf 3y agoFull title: Canon, known for its cameras, launches ASML challenge with machine to make the most advanced chips
- Goodroo 3y agoThis will be interesting because the few potential customers like TSMC and Intel are shareholders of ASML and thus their captive market. Most people don't know that EUV was actually a DARPA funded project to pry away semiconductor leadership from the Japanese
- gary_0 3y agoEUV has quite the history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_ultraviolet_lithography#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_ultraviolet_lithograph... > "Congress denied Japanese companies the necessary permission as they were perceived as strong technical competitors at the time"
- tpmx 3y agoOdd, the exact same model number (FPA-1200NZ2C) was also launched in 2017: https://global.canon/en/news/2017/20170720.html https://global.canon/en/news/2017/20170720.html It was then marketed as 10 nm.
- kridsdale3 3y agoMaybe its the same machine and they just turned the dial from 10 to 5.