EUV lithography
Widely usedCompany-reported
- What happened
TSMC said N7+, the industry's first commercially available process using EUV, was delivering customer products to market in high volume.
- Why it matters
Its shorter wavelength is what lets chipmakers print the nanometer-scale features of today's most advanced chips.
TSMC, 7 Oct 2019- How far from your life
Everyday life
Extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography is on step 5 of 5. It is probably already in your life.
- Source
“the industry's first commercially available Extreme Ultraviolet (EUV) lithography technology,”TSMC, 7 Oct 2019
Company-reported: the only source so far is the company itself. It still counts on the ladder, and we show the flag until an independent source backs it.
The bigger picture
More on EUV lithography
On step 5 of 5: Everyday life. Everything we track on it
- On the record
SK hynix finished assembling ASML's next-generation High-NA EUV machine, the Twinscan EXE:5200B, at its M16 fab in Icheon, South Korea, a sign it will soon be used in volume production.
Bits&Chips, 3 Sept 2025