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> even if they use older machines and run longer exposure times How do longer exposure times and older machines enable 2nm process nodes?
by htrp 10mo ago
> even if they use older machines and run longer exposure times
How do longer exposure times and older machines enable 2nm process nodes?
- CamperBob2 10mo agoIf you didn't care about exposure time, you could build 2nm chips with brute-force electron beam lithography. But the limited throughput confines EBL to research and very low-volume applications. ASML's EUV-based processes are what permit industrial-level scaling, ultimately because parallel beams of electrons repel each other while parallel beams of photons don't. I don't personally understand why suitable EUV light sources are so hard to build, but evidently, they are. It sounds like a big deal if China is catching up in that area.
- bgnn 10mo agoThey can do 7nm and 5nm. Multiple patterning basically. I don't know when it doesn't scale anymore. Moat likely 4x patterning is the max you want to do.