07/14/10 ASML announces 2010 second quarter results; sales set for new high amid increasing semiconductor fab spend
ASML today announces 2010 second quarter results. “Our second quarter sales came in at EUR 1.069 billion, confirming the continued strong demand in the semiconductor industry for our leading edge lithography systems,” said Eric Meurice, President and Chief Executive Officer of ASML. “Our NXT:1950i is now enabling volume production of the most advanced and cost-efficient semiconductor nodes, with close to 20 systems shipped and half a million silicon wafers already exposed"…
07/13/10 Chip makers adopt ASML's holistic lithography to continue Moore's law
ASML today at SEMICON West announces broad customer adoption of holistic lithography products which optimize semiconductor scanner performance and provide a faster start to chip production. 100% of ASML's leading-edge scanners are now sold with one or more holistic lithography components. Semiconductor manufacturers face increasingly smaller margins of error as they shrink chip features. Holistic lithography provides a way to shrink within these margins to continue Moore's Law...
07/09/10 EUV litho sources improving, says workshop (source: EE Times)
Sources for extreme ultraviolet lithography are not yet sufficiently bright to allow commercial wafer throughputs, but they are improving sufficiently for beta tools shipping in 2011, according to participants at a workshop held in Maui, Hawaii.
03/03/10 ASML Receives Intel’s Preferred Quality Supplier Award
ASML has been recognized as one of 16 suppliers to receive Intel Corporation’s Preferred Quality Supplier (PQS) award for their performance in 2009. ASML is recognized for their significant contributions, providing Intel with lithography process tools, deemed essential to Intel’s success. ...
02/22/10 TSMC to Take Delivery of an ASML EUV Lithography System for Research and Development on Future Technology Generations
ASML today announced that Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TWSE: 2330, NYSE: TSM) will take delivery of a TWINSCAN NXE:3100 extreme ultra-violet (EUV) lithography system. This tool represents one of six NXE:3100 EUV systems for ASML’s worldwide partners and customers. ...
02/22/10 ASML FlexRay Illuminators Successfully Enter Market as Chip Makers Seek Design Flexibility for Continued Shrink
ASML today announces its new FlexRay programmable illumination system is finding strong acceptance by providing chip makers with virtually unlimited illumination source tuning. Faster, more flexible source tuning is essential for customers making full use of ASML’s powerful source and mask optimization (SMO) software aimed at continued chip feature shrink, initially in R&D and later proliferation in production. ...
02/22/10 ASML Ships 100th TWINSCAN XT:19x0 Series Immersion System While Ramping Deliveries of New NXT Immersion Platform
ASML today announced the shipment of its 100th TWINSCAN XT:1900 series lithography system, capable of imaging industry-leading chip features as small as 38 nanometers. ...
12/03/09 ASML and Brion Technologies Extend Partnership with STMicroelectronics for Integrated Lithography Solutions for Advanced Chip Development
ASML, along with its subsidiary Brion Technologies, today announced a broad-scoped joint development project with STMicroelectronics (ST) to accelerate 28-nm node deployment and 22-nm node development. ...
11/07/09 ASML: Chip making goes vacuum with EUV
Find out how the next generation of chips needs to be fabricated in a vacuum chamber. For Moore's Law to continue beyond 2020, chip makers will switch to Extreme Ultraviolet (EUV) imaging scanners to project electronic circuits on silicon wafers. This can only be done in a chamber
without air. The first production machines will be installed at
chip makers around the world in 2010.
11/02/09 Chartered Adopts Brion's Computational Lithography Solutions
Brion Technologies, an ASML company, has reached a multi-year agreement with Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing Ltd., one of the world's top dedicated semiconductor foundries, to implement a broad suite of computational lithography products. ...
07/22/09 ASML and Carl Zeiss - Two Companies, one business
The long-standing strategic relationship between Carl Zeiss and ASML has had a pivotal role in developing semiconductor lithography and consumer electronics. ...
04/19/09 ASML: Customer Support 24/7
In making microchips, uptime is big money. Every day, highly-sophisticated lithography machines work round the clock to print hundreds of chips on thousands of silicon wafers. One extra hour of production time can cut a chipmakers costs by tens of thousands of Euros. ...
04/11/09 Virtual scanning for smarter chips
ASML Brion is active in developing a scanner simulator for the semiconductor industry. This simulator can predict errors and can optimize chip patterns.
11/05/08 ASML - Powering the next phase of semiconductor manufacturing
To make chips smaller, smarter and cheaper, ASML lithography systems need phenomenally advanced mechatronic systems, lenses and software that increase the resolution of chip features. ...
07/21/08 ASML - Double Patterning: the dual carriageway to smaller chip
Chipmakers always try to make electronic circuits smaller. Why? Because fitting more transistors into the same area means chips can do more, work faster, use less power, store more data and cost less (Moore's law). That means better
MP3 players, digital cameras, cell phones and computers. ...
04/18/08 ASML - Clean tools for clean chips
Memory chips for iPods and digital cameras can contain increasing amounts of data because chip makers are able to fit more transistors on the same area by making the transistors smaller. But this makes them more vulnerable to dust and dirt... Watch how ASML keeps your chips clean.
03/21/08 ASML - How water can make more powerful chips
Consumers expect gadgets with more storage and computing power at lower prices, but few know that water is essential to make smaller and more powerful chips. Here's the story of immersion lithography for the semiconductor
industry.
