From ASML, although it will pay almost $400 million for it closer to next year.
At the quarterly reporting event at the end of last week, as noted ReutersIntel CEO Patrick Gelsinger briefly mentioned that the company is already expecting delivery of a second ASML High-NA EUV lithography scanner. It plans to use these in mass production of chips based on Intel’s 14A technology from 2027, and in the meantime will experiment with the equipment at its research center in Oregon.
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Intel installed the first lithographic scanner of this class in this center back in April, and if we are to believe unofficial information, the company has reserved almost the entire quota for such ASML lithographic systems for the current year. However, this did not prevent ASML from installing the same scanner in its own lab in the Netherlands, as well as transferring a similar system to the Belgian IMEC, which is studying lithographic technologies. According to Gelsinger, the company is quite pleased with the first results of experiments with this type of equipment.
