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ASML's Lithography Plant

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Sparweb

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May 21, 2003
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So I've never seen this stuff stripped to the bones, never realized what was hidden inside.

This looks like it was made from a solid block of aluminum 10 meters on two sides, and more than a meter thick. WOW.
The implications to make something like that, and the difficulties that must be overcome, are really hard to think about.
I bet there's a tight tolerance on all of those bolt holes, too.

This photo is from a recent MIT Technology Review article, for those who subscribe: (The comment about Moore's law is just clickbait for nerds like me)

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Is this the link to Moore's Law?

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Thanks for sharing that Spar. I was able to read some interesting information before the pay-wall cut-off.

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Not just that, but UV lithography had gone from a "1-um is the death of UV lithography" back in the late 70s to going down to 5-nm feature sizes, albeit with double or triple the number of photolithographic masks per physical layer, through people like ASML, Canon, etal. E-beam lithography was going to take over the world in the 80s; just goes to show how hard it is to get people to change the way they do things.

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Their EUV stepper is a very impressive and massive machine, I have seen one up close at one of their facilities.
Our company makes the critical nozzle that ejects the tin droplets.

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Sure, somewhat better than the x-ray lithography systems a company across the street tried to develop and sell in 1986, but went bankrupt because the lithography guys refused to leave UV behind.

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My company used to supply the high temperature adhesive for the tin nozzle assembly of the EUV Laser. About one drop per nozzle. Not a big seller.
 
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Just for some context, it was reported on Marketplace that Samsung is building a semiconductor plant in the US to the tune of $7B!!!??? WTF? I remember when we thought we could build a small fab for about $40M in 1987.

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IR; Look again. You dropped a "1". Please do not set any missile targeting numbers. The plant is going to cost $17B

That's in Taylor Texass (centralish) 30mi from Austin where they have another large fab called Fab1 built in 1996. Samsung is the 2nd largest semiconductor fab company.

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