ASML’s extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography tools have long been essential to advanced chip manufacturing, with foundries such as TSMC, Samsung, and Intel investing heavily to acquire them. Now, a U.S. startup is looking to challenge the Dutch company’s dominance — and ultimately seek to rep...

As China pushes to localize chipmaking amid U.S. export controls, developing domestic lithography tools has become a top priority — with ASML’s EUV and DUV systems at the center of its ambitions. Recently, China has reportedly intensified efforts to study the Dutch giant’s DUV machines. Accord...

EUV lithography has become the cornerstone of advanced chip manufacturing, and as the foundry race intensifies at ever-smaller nodes, major players are accelerating the development of related technologies. According to Nikkei XTECH, TSMC has significantly ramped up its patent filings in semiconducto...

At the 2025 SEMiBAY event in China, several companies showcased the nation’s growing semiconductor capabilities, including subsidiaries of Huawei-linked equipment maker SiCarrier. Beyond SiCarrier, another firm drew attention for its advances in lithography. According to South China Morning Post, ...

According to The Korea Economic Daily, Samsung is reportedly set to receive its first high-numerical-aperture (high-NA) EUV scanner — the Twinscan EXE:5200B — later this year, followed by a second unit in the first half of 2026. While the company already operates a research-use high-NA EUV tool ...