What’s new in nano

ChipsOn sale

Intel launched Core Ultra Series 3, its first chips made on its 18A process with its new RibbonFET transistors. Pre-orders for laptops opened on January 6, 2026, with more than 200 designs expected.

ChipsProduction

TSMC said volume production of N2, its first process with nanosheet transistors, began in the last quarter of 2025 as planned, at its new Fab 22 near Kaohsiung.

ChipsOn 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.

ChipsPublished research

A Fudan University team reported WUJI in Nature: a 32-bit processor built from 5,900 transistors made of atom-thin MoS2, far beyond the previous record of 115.

ChipsCustomer samplesCompany-reported

Canon shipped a nanoimprint system to the Texas Institute for Electronics, a chipmaking consortium in Texas.

ChipsOn saleCompany-reported

Canon released the FPA-1200NZ2C, the first commercial chipmaking system to use nanoimprint lithography.