China's SMIC is piloting its first homegrown lithography machine to produce 7nm chips, while Beijing escalates antitrust and ...

Learn how EUV lithography uses extreme ultraviolet light and magnetic levitation to create the microchips powering modern electronics.

The future of semiconductor technology is often viewed through the lenses of photolithography equipment, which continues to offer better resolution for future process nodes despite an almost perpetual ...

Complexity And Cost: X-ray sources and masks are expensive and require specialised facilities, making the overall process costly. Proximity Printing: The need for proximity between the mask and resist ...

Computational lithography uses various techniques of resolution enhancement technology (RET) to create more perfect images on the chip as the elements of the transistor get smaller and smaller. THIS ...

China’s biggest chipmaker is testing the country’s first advanced locally made chipmaking machines. The move shows progress ...

In the early days, transistors were measured in microns. Today, thanks to rapid lithography progress, chips are being made at ...

On September 9, 2025, Dutch lithography equipment giant ASML announced a strategic partnership with French artificial intelligence company Mistral AI, planning to invest €1.3 billion. This ...

A review of the literature behind quantum lithography, combined with results from a recent but unrelated experiment, shows that quantum lithography is unlikely to work well. A review of the literature ...

Extreme Ultraviolet (EUV) system delivers a numerical aperture of 0.55, a 40 percent increase over the previous standard of 0 ...

Researchers have created a photonic device that provides programmable on-chip information processing without lithography, offering the speed of photonics augmented by superior accuracy and flexibility ...