{"id":222765,"date":"2025-10-01T20:07:27","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T01:07:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/tsmc-reduces-peak-power-consumption-of-euv-tools-by-44-company-to-save-190-million-kilowatt-hours-of-electricity-by-2030"},"modified":"2025-10-01T20:07:27","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T01:07:27","slug":"tsmc-reduces-peak-power-consumption-of-euv-tools-by-44-company-to-save-190-million-kilowatt-hours-of-electricity-by-2030","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/tsmc-reduces-peak-power-consumption-of-euv-tools-by-44-company-to-save-190-million-kilowatt-hours-of-electricity-by-2030","title":{"rendered":"TSMC reduces peak power consumption of EUV tools by 44% \u2014 company to save 190 million kilowatt-hours of electricity by 2030"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/tsmc-reduces-peak-power-consumption-of-euv-tools-by-44-company-to-save-190-million-kilowatt-hours-of-electricity-by-2030.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>TSMC is also exploring the possibility of applying similar dynamic energy control mechanisms to other lithography equipment, including DUV scanners, as well as additional modules outside the lithography sector.<\/p>\n<p>While TSMC did not reveal what, exactly, its EUV Dynamic Energy Saving Program involves, that it is applicable to DUV systems and other machinery means that it does not exploit EUV-specific peculiarities. For example, the program could implement adaptive power scaling based on real-time operational status. If wafers are not queued for immediate processing, the EUV tool could intelligently pause or shift to a low-power state rather than continuously consume full power. Such an approach would require real-time data exchange across the cleanroom as well as optimizations on process\/production flow levels (though, we are speculating).<\/p>\n<p>TSMC has been increasing the power efficiency of its EUV fab tools \u2014 which are notorious for their power consumption \u2014 for years, now. In mid-2024, the company announced that it had <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tomshardware.com\/tech-industry\/semiconductors\/how-tsmc-managed-to-increase-efficiency-of-asmls-euv-tools-system-level-optimizations-and-in-house-pellicles-chipmaker-boosted-euv-driven-wafer-production-by-30x-over-six-years-while-reducing-power-consumption-by-24-percent\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.tomshardware.com\/tech-industry\/semiconductors\/how-tsmc-managed-to-increase-efficiency-of-asmls-euv-tools-system-level-optimizations-and-in-house-pellicles-chipmaker-boosted-euv-driven-wafer-production-by-30x-over-six-years-while-reducing-power-consumption-by-24-percent\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.tomshardware.com\/tech-industry\/semiconductors\/how-tsmc-managed-to-increase-efficiency-of-asmls-euv-tools-system-level-optimizations-and-in-house-pellicles-chipmaker-boosted-euv-driven-wafer-production-by-30x-over-six-years-while-reducing-power-consumption-by-24-percent\" data-hl-processed=\"none\" class=\"\" data-custom-tracking-id=\"4757315085582501732\" data-hawk-tracked=\"hawklinks\" data-google-interstitial=\"false\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"[Tomshardware> Article - Inline Links\" data-mrf-link=\"https:\/\/www.tomshardware.com\/tech-industry\/semiconductors\/how-tsmc-managed-to-increase-efficiency-of-asmls-euv-tools-system-level-optimizations-and-in-house-pellicles-chipmaker-boosted-euv-driven-wafer-production-by-30x-over-six-years-while-reducing-power-consumption-by-24-percent\" cmp-ltrk=\"[Tomshardware] Article - Inline Links\" cmp-ltrk-idx=\"1\" mrfobservableid=\"e7641132-8277-43bd-9004-1359e12757c1\"]succeeded in reducing power consumption of its EUV litho systems by 24%,<\/a> though without disclosing what exactly had been done\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TSMC is also exploring the possibility of applying similar dynamic energy control mechanisms to other lithography equipment, including DUV scanners, as well as additional modules outside the lithography sector. While TSMC did not reveal what, exactly, its EUV Dynamic Energy Saving Program involves, that it is applicable to DUV systems and other machinery means that [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1694,1497],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electronics","category-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222765","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222765\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}