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 ...

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

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 ...