Intel and ASML strengthen their collaboration to drive High-NA into manufacturing in 2025
Intel has taken a significant step in its collaboration with ASML by placing an order for the TWINSCAN EXE:5200 system, aimed at advancing semiconductor lithography technology. This purchase marks Intel's commitment to introduce High-NA EUV systems in manufacturing by 2025. The new system boasts over 200 wafers per hour productivity and a numerical aperture of 0.55, enhancing lithographic capabilities compared to previous systems. This collaboration underscores Intel's strategy to maintain its position in the semiconductor industry and continue progressing towards smaller transistor features.
- Intel orders the TWINSCAN EXE:5200 system from ASML, marking a step forward in semiconductor lithography.
- The system offers over 200 wafers per hour productivity, enhancing operational efficiency.
- Collaboration aligns with Intel's roadmap to implement High-NA EUV technology by 2025.
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Intel and ASML strengthen their collaboration to drive High-NA into manufacturing in 2025
Intel makes its first purchase order for ASML’s TWINSCAN EXE:5200 system, marking the next step on the path to EUV 0.55 NA (High-NA) introduction.
VELDHOVEN, the Netherlands and HILLSBORO, OR, USA, Jan. 19, 2022 – Today, ASML Holding N.V. (ASML) and Intel Corporation (INTC) announced the latest phase of their longstanding collaboration to advance the cutting edge of semiconductor lithography technology. Intel has issued its first purchase order to ASML for the delivery of the industry’s first TWINSCAN EXE:5200 system – an extreme ultraviolet (EUV) high-volume production system with a high numerical aperture and more than 200 wafers per hour productivity – as part of the two companies’ long-term High-NA collaboration framework.
“Intel’s vision and early commitment to ASML’s High-NA EUV technology is proof of its relentless pursuit of Moore’s Law. Compared to the current EUV systems, our innovative extended EUV roadmap delivers continued lithographic improvements at reduced complexity, cost, cycle time and energy that the chip industry needs to drive affordable scaling well into the next decade,” said ASML President and CTO Martin van den Brink.
Intel announced at its Accelerated event in July that it plans to deploy the first High-NA technology to enable its roadmap of transistor innovations. Intel was the first to purchase the earlier TWINSCAN EXE:5000 system in 2018, and with the new purchase announced today, the collaboration continues the path for Intel’s production manufacturing with High-NA EUV beginning in 2025.
“Intel’s focus is to stay at the forefront of semiconductor lithography technology and we’ve been building our EUV expertise and capacity over the last year. Working closely with ASML, we will harness High-NA EUV’s high-resolution patterning as one of the ways we continue Moore’s Law and maintain our strong history of progression down to the smallest of geometries,” said Dr. Ann Kelleher, executive vice president and general manager of Technology Development at Intel.
The EXE platform is an evolutionary step in EUV technology and includes a novel optics design and significantly faster reticle and wafer stages. The TWINSCAN EXE:5000 and EXE:5200 systems offer a 0.55 numerical aperture — a precision increase from previous EUV machines with a 0.33 numerical aperture lens — to enable higher-resolution patterning for even smaller transistor features. The numerical aperture of the system, combined with the wavelength used, determines the smallest printable feature.
EUV 0.55 NA has been designed to enable multiple future nodes beginning in 2025 as the industry’s first deployment, followed by memory technologies at similar density. At the 2021 Investor Day, ASML shared its EUV roadmap and indicated that High-NA technology is expected to start supporting production manufacturing in 2025. Today's announcement is consistent with this roadmap.
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Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains forward looking statements, including statements relating to the order of a High NA system, the path to High-NA EUV introduction, EUV roadmap and expected timing of High-NA production manufacturing, expected features, performance and benefits of the platform, Intel’s future technology plans and progress, and other non-historical matters. These statements are based on current expectations, estimates, assumptions and projections and you should not place undue reliance on them. Forward-looking statements do not guarantee future performance and involve risks and uncertainties. These risks and uncertainties include risks related to production manufacturing of High-NA systems and timing thereof, ability to meet roadmap and performance and attributes of the tools and platform other risks indicated in the risk factors included in ASML’s most recent Annual Report on Form 20-F, Intel’s most recent report on Form 10-K, and other filings made by ASML and Intel with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, available at www.sec.gov. These forward-looking statements are made only as of the date of this document. We do not undertake to update or revise the forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
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