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EUV The Focal Point

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EUV The Focal Point is your Extreme Ultraviolet (EUV) lithography podcast. Industry Briefings: Cover leading-edge nodes, DRAM, HBM and strategy moves from ASML & co. and from the end customers Apple & co. Focus Deep Dives: Unpack physics, plasma, optics and how EUV scanners really work. Hosted by EUV experts Samantha and Jack, built entirely with AI (a technology that itself relies on EUV-made chips ;-) using company newsrooms, Wikipedia and news sites. AI can make mistakes: always verify the information independently before using it as a basis for business decisions.

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June 29, 2026

[048] Industry briefing - EUV The Focal Point

This post was created using AI. Please check the information if you want to use it as a basis for decision-making. This week’s episode looks at EUV as part of a broader manufacturing system rather than a standalone scanner story. South Korea’s cluster plans, Micron’s record quarter, SK Hynix’s proposed U.S. listing, Dutch pushback on export controls, ASML’s photonics work with TNO, and xLight’s light-source ambitions all point to the same theme: future lithography capacity is being financed and managed like strategic infrastructure. Key takeaways:- South Korea is preparing a new southwest semiconductor hub, with local reports suggesting investments could exceed 1,000 trillion won over several years.- The expected South Korean support package is infrastructure-heavy: power, water, land, workforce training, transport, and housing all matter for EUV-ready capacity.- Micron reported record fiscal Q3 revenue of $41.46 billion and said data-center revenue exceeded $25 billion in the quarter.- Micron has signed 16 strategic customer agreements and expects memory tightness to persist beyond calendar 2027.- Micron projects fiscal 2026 capex of about $27 billion and expects higher quarterly capex in fiscal 2027, with construction capex driving more than half the year-over-year increase.- SK Hynix plans to raise up to 45.45 trillion won, or about $29.4 billion, through a U.S. American Depositary Receipt listing.- Dutch officials are pushing back against the MATCH Act because it could force allies into U.S.-style China export controls and affect DUV servicing.- ASML and TNO will use DUV and I-line lithography in a new Eindhoven pilot line for six-inch indium phosphide photonic chips.- The xLight $350 million fundraising item remains reported rather than officially announced; the official anchor is the June 2 U.S. CHIPS Act award.- This week’s focus is a mixed-fleet view of lithography: EUV carries the densest layers, but DUV still carries much of scale, yield, reliability, and cost. Glossary:Extreme Ultraviolet (EUV) — Lithography using 13.5-nanometer light for the most critical layers in advanced logic and memory.High Numerical Aperture (High-NA) — Next-generation EUV optics with higher resolution potential, but higher cost and integration complexity.Deep Ultraviolet (DUV) — Lithography using longer wavelengths such as 193 nanometers and 248 nanometers, still essential for many advanced-node layers.Dynamic Random-Access Memory (DRAM) — Volatile memory used across servers, PCs, mobile devices, and high-bandwidth memory stacks.High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) — Stacked DRAM optimized for very high data bandwidth near AI accelerators and graphics processors.American Depositary Receipt (ADR) — A U.S.-traded certificate representing shares of a foreign company.Free-electron laser — A light source using accelerated electrons; xLight is developing this approach as an alternative EUV source.Indium phosphide (InP) — A compound semiconductor material used for active photonic functions such as lasers and modulators.Strategic customer agreement — A longer-term commercial agreement intended to improve supply visibility, pricing durability, or capacity commitment.

June 22, 2026

[047] Industry briefing - EUV The Focal Point

Take the survey on Spotify! This post was created using AI. Please check the information if you want to use it as a basis for decision-making. This week’s episode looks at EUV less as a scanner-capacity headline and more as a manufacturing translation engine. The focus is the new 300-millimeter 2D-material transistor work from imec, ASML, and TSMC, plus Intel’s 18A-P risk-production milestone, ASML’s denial of EUV shipments to China, and fresh HBM4E sampling pressure from SK hynix. Key takeaways:- imec, ASML, and TSMC demonstrated complementary 2D-material nFETs and pFETs on a 300-millimeter wafer at 50-nanometer contacted poly pitch.- The 2D-material result used single-patterning EUV and reported 94 percent operational transistors, moving the work closer to manufacturable process exploration.- Intel 18A-P entered risk production with claims of 9 percent higher performance at the same power or 18 percent lower power at the same performance versus Intel 18A.- Intel’s VLSI update also highlighted thermal, via-resistance, CFET, GaN-on-silicon, and ruthenium-interconnect research as part of a longer scaling stack.- ASML denied that it has ever shipped an EUV machine, or EUV-specific components or modules, to China.- SK hynix shipped samples of 12-layer HBM4E to major customers, claiming up to 16 gigabits per second per pin and more than 20 percent power-efficiency improvement.- Intel’s appointment of Seok-Hee Lee to lead foundry packaging reinforces that lithography, memory integration, and advanced packaging are now tightly linked.- The EUVL and Source Workshop framed the longer roadmap around High-NA, hyper-NA, sources, materials, metrology, k1 reduction, and sub-13.5-nanometer lithography. Glossary:Extreme Ultraviolet (EUV) lithography — Lithography using 13.5-nanometer light to pattern advanced semiconductor layers.High Numerical Aperture (High-NA) EUV — ASML’s next EUV generation with higher optical numerical aperture for finer patterning.Contacted poly pitch (CPP) — A transistor scaling metric combining gate and source/drain contact dimensions.Two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides (2D TMDs) — Atomically thin channel materials such as MoS2, WS2, and WSe2.nFET and pFET — Negative-type and positive-type field-effect transistors used together in CMOS logic.Risk production — Early manufacturing phase used to validate process maturity before full high-volume ramp.High Bandwidth Memory 4E (HBM4E) — A next-generation stacked DRAM technology aimed at high-throughput AI systems.Complementary Field-Effect Transistor (CFET) — A vertically stacked transistor architecture that may extend logic scaling beyond gate-all-around devices.

June 15, 2026

[046] Industry briefing - EUV The Focal Point

This post was created using AI. Please check the information if you want to use it as a basis for decision-making. This week’s episode treats EUV capacity as a system problem rather than a scanner-count problem. The main thread runs from Rapidus funding and TeraFab signaling to ASML’s policy stance and new research on source efficiency. Key takeaways:- Rapidus completed an additional 150 billion yen government-backed funding round, bringing stated capital and legal capital surplus to 424.95 billion yen.- Rapidus also signed an MoU with the United Kingdom Semiconductor Centre, adding an international collaboration marker to its 2-nanometer roadmap.- Elon Musk’s TeraFab plan was discussed in connection with ASML’s internal technology conference, but no scanner count, node mix, or production timeline has been disclosed.- ASML’s Christophe Fouquet supported demand-driven European technology policy but warned against excessive Commission steering of strategic projects.- Cadence and Intel Foundry expanded DTCO collaboration for Intel 14A, reinforcing that High-NA readiness depends on design enablement as well as optics.- TSMC’s recent comments underline that AI-driven chip demand is constrained by talent, water, infrastructure, and operational sequencing, not only capex.- New EUV source-efficiency papers point to 2-micron laser-driver concepts and conversion-efficiency gains as a possible future productivity lever.- ASML’s AI-native engineering message links scanner productivity to software, diagnostics, defect detection, and service-time reduction. Glossary:Extreme Ultraviolet (EUV) — 13.5-nanometer lithography used for critical layers in advanced logic and memory.High Numerical Aperture (High-NA) — Next-generation EUV optics with higher resolution but more complex cost, mask, and process integration requirements.Design Technology Co-Optimization (DTCO) — Joint optimization of process technology and chip design rules to improve manufacturability and performance.Process Design Kit (PDK) — Foundry-provided files, models, and rules that let designers build chips for a specific process.Conversion efficiency — The fraction of laser energy converted into usable EUV light in the source.Laser-produced plasma — EUV source method in which laser pulses strike tin to generate 13.5-nanometer radiation.TeraFab — Proposed large-scale semiconductor manufacturing project associated with SpaceX, Tesla, and Intel discussions.IIM — Rapidus’ Innovative Integration for Manufacturing site in Chitose, Hokkaido.Source power — EUV light output available for wafer exposure, a key input to throughput and dose margin.

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What is EUV The Focal Point?: EUV The Focal Point is your Extreme Ultraviolet (EUV) lithography podcast.

Industry Briefings: Cover leading-edge nodes, DRAM, HBM and strategy moves from ASML & co. and from the end customers Apple & co.

Focus Deep Dives: Unpack physics, plasma, optics and how EUV scanners really work.

Hosted by EUV experts Samantha and Jack, built entirely with AI (a technology that itself relies on EUV-made chips ;-) using company newsrooms, Wikipedia and news sites.

AI can make mistakes: always verify the information independently before using it as a basis for business decisions.
How often does this podcast release new episodes?: This podcast updates daily.
Where can I listen to this podcast?: This podcast is available on 4 platforms including Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and more. You can also use the RSS feed directly.
Does this podcast accept guests?: No, this podcast does not typically feature guests.

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