ASML’s $400M chipmaking machine just shipped its first laptop processors
High NA EUV was supposed to debut on Intel’s 14A node towards the end of the decade. It has turned up early, on Panther Lake, patterning layers that are also qualified to run on the old tools.
A machine that costs about $400mn is now printing a handful of the layers inside a laptop processor. ASML said on Wednesday that Intel Foundry has entered high-volume manufacturing on a subset of its Core Ultra Series 3 chips, code-named Panther Lake, using High NA extreme ultraviolet lithography. It is the first time any chipmaker has shipped a volume logic product patterned with the tool.
Panther Lake runs on Intel 18A, the node behind the chips that launched at CES in January and now ship in more than 200 laptop designs. Nobody expected High NA to show up there.
The plan, for years, was to hold the tool back for 14A, the...
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