At least, Intel is not late this time.
https://www.theregister.com/2024/08/08/imec_asml_na_uev_results/
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Intel at its damnedest likes to squeeze blood from a turnip !
Vintage and Legacy tool sets abound the floors ! Welcome to the process recipe matrix !
We haven't learned to force a lease than own contracts on our vendor suppliers yet !
TSMC wasn't first on EUV either, Samsung was. They just ramped really fast once the machines were in HVM production at ASML.
High NA has a smaller reticle and limits die size.
You can’t serve customers that need large chips like servers or GPUs.
TMSC need to be careful, Intel said the same about EUV preferring to keep old tools which were paid for and delayed its adoption and started to fall back due to higher chip wafer cost. The golden rul you need to be on the latest technology and on tools which have the cheapest operating costs. Intel was stuck using old tools with higher wafer costs
Yay Intel. Want an Intel shirt? I'm embarrassed to ware mine anymore.
"TSMC is also rumored to possess one of the machines. However, the Taiwanese semiconductor giant said earlier this year that it does not need High NA EUV photolithography to produce 1.6nm chips with its next-gen A16 process"