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OK, and in Intel's fabs? They're still not on EUV, right?
by SSLy 2y ago
OK, and in Intel's fabs? They're still not on EUV, right?
- scrlk 2y agoIntel 4 was their first EUV process, which entered HVM in September 2023.
- throwaway81523 2y agoDoes doing an EUV chip when you already have tons of non-EUV fab take more technical wizardry than writing a huge check to ASML for the EUV machine? EUV is in the mask making step, right? Obviously your wafer fab has to be tuned to your masks but EUV lithography itself (i.e. ASML making the machine) is waaay more difficult from what I can tell.
- sroussey 2y agoYes and no. More difficult in that it is different and smaller and there are issues to work out every time that happens (I once worked in a fab changing nodes). But some things are easier downstream, skipping the multi-patterning business for example. Though that multi-patterning stuff was pretty smart!