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ASML reported third-quarter 2026 revenue of $13.06 billion, up 55% year-over-year, with a record gross margin of 57.5% and operating income of $5.79 billion. The company sold 121 lithography systems in the quarter, with EUV and DUV tools split roughly evenly in revenue, and said it now expects customer demand to exceed its production capacity in 2027 and 2028.
China's Institute of Microelectronics (IMECAS) says it has completed early process integration for stacked-nanosheet gate-all-around transistors built entirely with immersion DUV lithography, avoiding EUV tools that Chinese fabs cannot access. The devices reportedly achieved Ion/Ioff ratios above the 5×10⁵ threshold needed to prove effective gate control over the nanosheet stack. However, IMECAS has not released key figures like gate pitch, transistor density, or nanosheet dimensions needed to compare it to actual 3nm-class chips from TSMC or Samsung.