Taipei,Sept.5,2012--J.K.Wang,Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.'s vice president for operations/300mm fabs,yesterday said the company,currently the world's No.1 pure silicon foundry,will begin volume production of chips on 450mm silicon ...
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STMicroelectronics'strategy of being a'competitive follower'in process technology means that the advantage in gaining access to processing equipment gained by the Intel,Samsung,TSMC lithographic alliance with ASML will not affect ST. "We ...
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Korean semiconductor and electronics giant buys 3%stake in the Dutch lithography company,joining Intel and TSMC Samsung has followed its fellow chipmakers Intel and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing ...
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Following Intel and contract chip maker Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC), Samsung Electronics will invest US$976 million in Dutch chip manufacturing equipment maker ASML to further development of next-generation lithography ...
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02 Aug 2012 German company will lead a new effort to shrink extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography resolution from 20nm to 14nm. EUV optics The optics giant Carl Zeiss is to lead a new project to improve the resolution of extreme ...
Tags: Zeiss, 7M, EUV optics project, 02 Aug 2012, from 20nm to 14nm
Cymer reports improved EUV optics performance 25 Jul 2012 New coating on collector for extreme ultraviolet source increases effective lifetime by 50%. Bull run:Cymer hits long-term high Lithography light source provider Cymer has ...
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ASML shares hit record high after'boring'quarter 18 Jul 2012 Steady sales and recent investment by Intel propel the lithography company to its highest-ever value. ASML share price graph:1996-2012 Shares in the market-leading ...
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Samsung and TSMC have 45 days to take up the offer to invest in ASML. ASML says it has offered Samsung and TSMC the same deal for equity investment+equipment procurement+R&D support which Intel accepted earlier this week. The deal is ...
Nuclear fusion research at the University of Washington has lead to a source of extreme ultra-violet(EUV)for lithography. EUV lithography at 13.5nm is one of the techniques proposed to continue'Moore's Law'below 10nm,replacing 193nm light ...
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Japanese maker of lithography light sources says that it is first to surpass commercially significant milestone. EUV:pilot to production Gigaphoton,one of the companies that is developing light sources for the forthcoming generation ...
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Optics bellwether compensates for semiconductor market weakness with rapid growth in Asia. The Carl Zeiss Group is on course for another strong financial year,despite the negative impact of the current slump in the semiconductor ...
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EV Group has announced a joint development agreement with Eulitha AG, whereby the companies will combine their expertise in nanolithography to develop a full-field exposure tool for patterning sapphire substrates. EV Group (EVG), a supplier ...
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