EUV

And also a 30% increase in density

Y-Combinator-backed startup eyes powerful laser wakefield accelerator for advanced lithography techniques.

Delay, but not stop.

Pat Gelsinger is back in the semiconductor game with xLight, a company that plans to make an EUV light source using a collider.

ASML to install its High-NA EUV lithography tools in Imec's pilot production line to give research and development personnel access to leading-edge equipment.

Micron's 1γ fabrication technology with EUV, new HKMG, and BEOL promises to increase performance while cutting power consumption for DRAM.

Intel says ASML's High-NA EUV tools have produced 30,000 wafers in a single quarter.

Rapidus's IIM-1 and IIM-2 will feature 10 EUV lithography systems.

Fujifilm, one of a few makers of EUV photoresists, will expand capacities in the U.S., Japan, and South Korea as Intel, TSMC, Samsung, and SK hynix ramp up production.

Petawatt-class thulium lasers could replace CO2 lasers in lithography machines down the road.