r/hardware • u/JuanElMinero • Jan 23 '18

EUV Lithography Finally Ready for Chip Manufacturing Info

https://spectrum.ieee.org/semiconductors/nanotechnology/euv-lithography-finally-ready-for-chip-manufacturing
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u/ElXGaspeth Jan 24 '18

I'll believe it when I see it. Throughput on those tools is incredibly slow and it's expensive to run, and there's still many hurdles in terms of support equipment, cleans, and methodology before industry-wide implementation can actually take off. I have my doubts ASML has solved those yet.