{"id":153805,"date":"2018-09-16T11:30:54","date_gmt":"2018-09-16T09:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/innovationorigins.com\/?p=153805"},"modified":"2018-09-16T11:30:54","modified_gmt":"2018-09-16T09:30:54","slug":"first-commercial-euv-enabled-chips-about-to-hit-the-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/en\/first-commercial-euv-enabled-chips-about-to-hit-the-market\/","title":{"rendered":"First\u00a0commercial EUV-enabled chips about to hit the market"},"content":{"rendered":"

ZEISS Oberkochen celebrated \u201c50 Years of Enabling the Semiconductor Industry\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/h1>\n

No, the 7-nanometer chips<\/a> in the new iPhones are not produced in one of ASML’s EUV chip machines. But it won’t be long before the first\u00a0commercial EUV-enabled chips will hit the market. Veldhoven based ASML and Oberkochen based partner Zeiss expect this to happen early next year.<\/p>\n

At the Zeiss celebration of ’50 Years of Enabling the Semiconductor Industry’ held in Oberkochen last week, Dr. Martin van den Brink, President and CTO of ASML, highlighted the way in which EUV lithography has helped shape the microelectronics industry: \u201cThe launch of EUV in chip fabs around the world was based on major scientific efforts and technological innovation. The fourth generation of the EUV system, the NXE:3400B, is currently rolled out in the mass production processes at several customers.” The first generation of chips based on EUV lithography will be launched early next year \u2013 and ASML is already working on the next lithography platform: EUV with high numerical aperture. Van den Brink: “This system will enable geometric chip scaling beyond the next decade and offer 70% better resolution and positioning accuracy than the most advanced EUV systems available today.\u201d<\/p>\n

First lens for a circuit board exposure device<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

In 1968, ZEISS supplied a lens for a circuit board exposure device for the first time. At the time, the predecessor of today\u2019s wafer scanners for chip production mapped structures of more than ten micrometres. Today, ZEISS Semiconductor Manufacturing Technology (SMT) lithography optics with extreme ultraviolet light (EUV) already enable structures of less than 20 nanometers. Used in the wafer scanners of strategic partner ASML, they enable the production of increasingly powerful, smaller, cheaper and more energy-efficient chips. They pave the way for microelectronic innovations such as the Internet of Things, Smart Production, electromobility and self-driving cars.<\/p>\n

EUV lithography as a model for European cooperation<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n
\"Zeiss<\/a>
Dr. Michael Kaschke, President and CEO of ZEISS, Dr. Dieter Kurz, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Carl Zeiss AG and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Carl Zeiss Foundation, Martin van den Brink, President and CTO of ASML, Dr. Karl Lamprecht, Member of the Executive Board of ZEISS and Head of the SMT segment, and Dr. Herbert Zeisel, Minsterial Conductor in the Key Technology for Growth Department at the BMBF (from the left), in front of the model of a Starlith\u00ae 19xyi lens from ZEISS.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The 50-year development of semiconductor manufacturing technologies from ZEISS and the lithography systems developed by ASML since 1984 have culminated in the production of EUV lithography in 2018. The success of EUV technology is a model for European cooperation in research, industry and politics, Zeiss says. The German government, the Dutch government and the European Commission have all been promoting research and development in lithography for around three decades. The aim of the ZEISS event \u201c50 Years of Enabling the Semiconductor Industry\u201d held in Oberkochen was to celebrate what has been achieved together with sponsors, project partners and stakeholders, as well as to discuss the future of successful cooperation in strategy discussions.<\/p>\n

Dr. Georg Sch\u00fctte, State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), emphasized the importance of long-term funding: \u201cWe will continue to strengthen the position of microelectronics in Germany with the new High-Tech Strategy 2025. We are convinced that technological sovereignty is a valuable commodity today. ZEISS and ASML are a fine example of how Europe can conduct excellent research and produce innovations. The keys to success were European cooperation and ongoing public funding.\u201d Since 2005, the BMBF has invested a total of \u20ac900 million in microelectronics.<\/p>\n

Moore’s Law<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

The EUV systems \u2013 with an exposure wavelength of 13.5 nanometers \u2013 enable finer chip structures than classic lithography systems. “This technological leap is the biggest in the history of chip manufacturing and continues Moore\u2019s law<\/a>“, a Zeiss spokesperson said. “This is crucial in semiconductor electronics, and states that the number of integrated circuits that can fit on a microchip will double every two years.”<\/p>\n

More on Moore’s Law<\/a>\u00a0– or look at this statement by Maarten Steinbuch<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\u201cIf I look at the developments at ASML, Moore\u2019s prediction will certainly continue for about thirty to forty years. I base this, among other things, on the current immersion lithography, which has not yet been developed fully. The company is also moving forward with EUV technology. The next step is optical computers, or photonics, followed by quantum computing.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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