Comment by HarHarVeryFunny
Comment by HarHarVeryFunny 2 months ago
There was recent news of Japan (OIST) developing a new more efficient type of EUV, and also of Canon having a new alternate "nanoimprint" chip manufacturing technology.
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/japanese-scientis...
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/new-stamping-chip...
Japan has been working on EUV for a long time but is very far from a working machine, despite developing IP. Notice how that article only mentions simulation tests; very very far from getting all the pieces needed for EUV litho.
On the nanoprint technology: as far as I understand it, this will have economic advantages in trailing nodes but is not currently seen as a way to scale past EUV.