Intel Makes Chipmaking History With High-NA EUV Panther Lake Production
ASML and Intel Foundry announced today that a subset of Intel's Core Ultra Series 3 Panther Lake processors are now rolling off production lines utilizing the industry's first commercial High-NA EUV scanner. This is a pretty big deal, because for a long time, nobody was actually sure if High-NA EUV was even worth pursuing. It's expensive and difficult, but Intel has proved that it can work.
If you're wondering what we're even talking about, lithography is the process of using light to print microscopic transistor designs onto silicon wafers. Extreme Ultraviolet (EUV) lithography revolutionized the industry by using a tiny wavelength of light (13.5 nanometers) to print incredibly dense features. To grossly oversimplify, you need a very sharp knife to do very fine carving, and so you need an absurdly 'sharp' light for extremely fine photolithography.
Well, High-NA, which stands for High Numerical Aperture, is the next generation of this...
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