Computing · 2023

High-NA EUV

A bigger lens for even finer EUV lines.

ASML shipped its first 0.55 numerical aperture EUV scanner to Intel in December 2023. The machine, costing around $380 million, is intended to print features for 2 nm-class chips and beyond.

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What it built on 1

EUV lithography 2019

What it led to 1

Zettascale computing ~2035

Related measurements

The dashed line marks when it first worked.

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