GoKawiilIntel processes over one million High-NA EUV wafers, exceeding industry's combined total
Intel says it has run more than one million 300-mm wafers through its High-NA EUV scanners since assembling its first tool roughly two and a half years ago. The company is currently using these tools, including EXE:5000 and EXE:5200B systems, to produce Panther Lake chips on its 18A process, while also developing larger 6x12-inch photomasks that would let High-NA tools expose full-size chip fields without needing to stitch two half-fields together.
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ASML reported earlier this year that the entire High-NA EUV installed base across all customers had processed roughly 500,000 wafers, meaning Intel alone has now surpassed that combined industry figure. This signals Intel has built meaningful lead time and process maturity with the costly, next-generation lithography tools it is betting on to regain manufacturing competitiveness against TSMC and Samsung.
- Intel crossed one million High-NA EUV wafers in about two and a half years, more than the rest of the industry combined.
- The tools are already in production use for Panther Lake chips built on Intel's 18A process node.
- Intel is developing larger 6x12-inch photomasks to avoid field-stitching and cut production costs on future chips.
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