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> US did to Japan something similar in the '80s, and they never recovered. Not quite. Japan was well underway with EUV lithography.. > Today, ASML is at the
by fransje26 2y ago
> US did to Japan something similar in the '80s, and they never recovered.
Not quite. Japan was well underway with EUV lithography..
> Today, ASML is at the forefront of lithography
That's because it is so prohibitively expensive to develop. That, coupled with the fact that the machines are becoming prohibitively expensive to buy, indicates that it is probably a technological dead-end.
- maxglute 2y ago>indicates that is probably a technological dead-end. Which is why IMO PRC exploring SSMB /synchrotron EUV is so interesting. IIRC EUV development picked plasma over synchrotron because plasma projected to be cheaper, even though technically synchrotron had more benefits. Queue many, many years of technical challenges and now commercialized EUV machines cost 200m, 400m for next high NA. Which is about the cost of multiple small or single medium size synchrotron facility in west. TLDR is it's amazing plasma EUV works, but it's also a failure in the sense that it is FAR less economical than originally envisioned. Economical dead end if PRC ever figures out cheaper alternative tools AND doesn't have to pay IP fees which they would have operating under western ecosystem.