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ASML CEO Christophe Fouquet on his company’s monopoly: no one is coming for us (techcrunch.com)

2026-05-05 | by Connie Loizos | get ASML EUV Lithography Machine → | tags: asml, extreme ultraviolet lithography, chip manufacturing

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ASML's Best Selling Product Isn't What You Think It Is (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-04 | by John Cole | get ASML Lithography Machine → | tags: asml, euv lithography, semiconductor

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ASML's roadmap for chipmaking lithography tools examined — from DUV to Low-NA, High-NA, Hyper-NA, and beyond (tomshardware.com)

2026-05-01 | by Luke James | get ASML Lithography Simulator → | tags: asml, euv lithography, high-na

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Congress moves to strip the DoC of chip-export discretion with the MATCH Act — DUV lithography machines among those targeted in chipmaking tool crackdown (tomshardware.com)

2026-04-22 | by Luke James | get ASML Lithography Machine → | tags: duv lithography, asml, nikon

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ASML shares fall after proposed U.S. export curbs target an already fragile China market (cnbc.com)

2026-04-07 | by Arjun Kharpal | get ASML Lithography Machine → | tags: asml, euv lithography, china

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US lawmakers aim to ban export of DUV chipmaking and etching tools to leading firms in China — bipartisan proposal would ban lithography equipment for Huawei, SMIC, and others (tomshardware.com)

2026-04-06 | by Anton Shilov | get ASML Lithography Machine → | tags: duv chipmaking, smic, lithography equipment

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Breakthrough computer chip tech could help meet ‘monumental demand’ driven by AI (feeds.nature.com)

2026-04-02 | by Bourzac | get AI Accelerator Card → | tags: asml, euv lithography, silicon wafers

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SK hynix places record $8 billion order for ASML EUV lithography machines — should pay for up to 30 EUV machines over two years, serving HBM and advanced DRAM production (tomshardware.com)

2026-03-24 | by Luke James | get ASML EUV Lithography Machine → | tags: asml, euv lithography, sk hynix

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Microsoft-backed start-up raises $40 million for helium atom beam lithography that could print chips at atomic resolution — 0.1nm beam is 135 times narrower than ASML's EUV light (tomshardware.com)

2026-03-24 | by Luke James | get NanoAtomic Beam Lithography Kit → | tags: lace lithography, helium atom beam, asml

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Elon Musk unveils $20 billion ‘TeraFab’ chip project to make chips, memory, and package processors all under one roof — targets a terawatt of annual compute (tomshardware.com)

2026-03-22 | by Luke James | get Intel Core i9 Processor → | tags: terafab, tesla, spacex

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DIY chip lab turns backyard shed into Class 100 cleanroom with custom lithography system (techspot.com)

2026-03-11 | get Cleanroom DIY Kit → | tags: dr. semiconductor, diy chip lab, cleanroom

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Rapidus targets mass 2nm chip production in 2027, quadruples capacity ramp up — company plans to scale to 25,000 wafer starts per month in just one year (tomshardware.com)

2026-02-13 | by Luke James | get Nanometer → | tags: lithography, production, rapidus

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Why Nvidia’s AI boom couldn’t happen without Dutch chip equipment maker ASML (cnbc.com)

2026-01-29 | by Kai Nicol-Schwarz | get Nvidia GPU → | tags: advanced, asml, chip

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The Top 8 Semiconductor Stories of 2025 (spectrum.ieee.org)

2025-12-30 | by Samuel K. Moore | get Semiconductor → | tags: chip, chips, lithography

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China tells chipmakers to use homegrown chipmaking tools for 50% of new capacity — decree designed to squeeze foreign suppliers out of supply chain (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-30 | by Anton Shilov | get Semiconductors → | tags: asml, chinese, lithography

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China's reverse-engineered Frankenstein EUV chipmaking tool hasn't produced a single chip — sanctions-busting experiment is still years away from becoming operational (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-24 | by Anton Shilov | get X-ray microscopes → | tags: asml, high, lithography

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Chinese fabs are reportedly upgrading older ASML DUV lithography chipmaking machines — secondary channels and independent engineers used to soup up Twinscan NXT series (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-22 | by Luke James | get NXT Series → | tags: asml, chinese, fabs

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China may have reverse engineered EUV lithography tool in covert lab, report claims — employees given fake IDs to avoid secret project being detected, prototypes expected in 2028 (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-18 | by Anton Shilov | get X-ray Microscopy → | tags: asml, china, chinese

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Chinese scientists discover method to cut defects by 99% with DUV chipmaking equipment, but it destroys EUV pattern fidelity — analyzing photoresist clustering with cryo-ET at 105°C (tomshardware.com)

2025-11-10 | by Anton Shilov | get UV Chipmaker → | tags: defects, developer, liquid

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American startup Substrate promises 2nm-class chipmaking with particle accelerators, at a tenth of the cost of EUV — X-ray lithography system has potential to surpass ASML's EUV scanners (tomshardware.com)

2025-11-03 | by Anton Shilov | get Chipmaker → | tags: asml, light, lithography

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Chips, AI, and Geopolitics: Inside ASML’s Surprising Mistral Investment (techreport.com)

2025-11-03 | by Monica J. White | get Microchip → | tags: asml, europe, lithography

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Startup aims to shrink particle accelerators to transform semiconductor manufacturing (techspot.com)

2025-10-31 | by Skye Jacobs | get Microsoft Surface Laptop → | tags: inversion, light, lithography