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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

China's largest chip manufacturer SMIC is to test lithography systems from Yuliangsheng. In the long term, they could replace some ASML systems.

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 ...

Alibaba secures China Unicom as major client for AI chips amid Beijing's push for domestic alternatives. SMIC begins trial ...

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 ...