{"id":180001,"date":"2024-01-06T16:24:42","date_gmt":"2024-01-06T22:24:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/tsmc-wont-adopt-advanced-high-na-euv-chipmaking-tools-until-2030-or-later-intel-just-received-its-first-tool-this-week-report"},"modified":"2024-01-06T16:24:42","modified_gmt":"2024-01-06T22:24:42","slug":"tsmc-wont-adopt-advanced-high-na-euv-chipmaking-tools-until-2030-or-later-intel-just-received-its-first-tool-this-week-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/tsmc-wont-adopt-advanced-high-na-euv-chipmaking-tools-until-2030-or-later-intel-just-received-its-first-tool-this-week-report","title":{"rendered":"TSMC won\u2019t adopt advanced High-NA EUV chipmaking tools until 2030 or later \u2014 Intel just received its first tool this week: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/tsmc-wont-adopt-advanced-high-na-euv-chipmaking-tools-until-2030-or-later-intel-just-received-its-first-tool-this-week-report2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This week, Intel <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tomshardware.com\/pc-components\/cpus\/intel-receives-first-high-na-euv-chipmaking-tool-from-asml-intel-is-the-first-pathfinder-for-revolutionary-new-lithography-tech\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.tomshardware.com\/pc-components\/cpus\/intel-receives-first-high-na-euv-chipmaking-tool-from-asml-intel-is-the-first-pathfinder-for-revolutionary-new-lithography-tech\">began to receive its first ASML\u2019s extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography tool<\/a> with a 0.55 numerical aperture (High-NA), which it will use to learn how to use the technology before deploying the machines for a post-18A production node in the next couple of years or so. By contrast, TSMC is in no rush to adopt <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tomshardware.com\/news\/intel-orders-second-twinscan-exe-high-na-euv-tool\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.tomshardware.com\/news\/intel-orders-second-twinscan-exe-high-na-euv-tool\">High-NA EUV<\/a> any time soon, and it might be years before the company jumps on this bandwagon in 2030 or beyond, according to analysts from both <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.chinarenaissance.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-url=\"http:\/\/www.chinarenaissance.com\/\">China Renaissance<\/a> and <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.semianalysis.com\/p\/asml-dilemma-high-na-euv-is-worse\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.semianalysis.com\/p\/asml-dilemma-high-na-euv-is-worse\">SemiAnalysis<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn contrast to Intel\u2019s use of High-NA EUV soon after its shift to GAA (planned for [20A] insertion), we expect TSMC\u2019sHigh-NA EUV insertion in the post N1.4 era (the inflection likely at N1, scheduled for post-2030 launch),\u201d wrote Szeho Ng, an analyst with China Renaissance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, Intel began to receive its first ASML\u2019s extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography tool with a 0.55 numerical aperture (High-NA), which it will use to learn how to use the technology before deploying the machines for a post-18A production node in the next couple of years or so. By contrast, TSMC is in no rush [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":709,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/709"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180001\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}