Intel: EUV-Enabled 7nm Process Tech is on Track

Re:Intel: EUV-Enabled 7nm Process Tech is on Track by baybal2 on Monday December 10, 2018 @01:58AM (#18645802)

EUV is semiconductor industry's equivalent of commercial fusion: every 5 years, the prognosis is made that we will get commercial EUV in the next 5 years. And like that for the last 30 years.

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Re:Intel: EUV-Enabled 7nm Process Tech is on Track by periya on Monday December 10, 2018 @02:26AM (#18645917)

TSMC has already an alpha tape out using EUV. The tech may finally have arrived. https://www.anandtech.com/show/13445/tsmc-first-7nm-euv-chip...

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Re:Intel: EUV-Enabled 7nm Process Tech is on Track by ksec on Monday December 10, 2018 @03:05AM (#18646088)

You will just have to look at ASML stock price and revenue. They are the only one doing EUV. And it is nothing like Fusion.

TSMC will have multilayers 7nm EUV in 2019, Full 5nm EUV in 2020. Samsung has 7nm EUV sampling and are toying with the idea of EUV NAND and DRAM.

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Re:Intel: EUV-Enabled 7nm Process Tech is on Track by baybal2 on Monday December 10, 2018 @03:34AM (#18646210)

Really full EUV in 2020???, makes little sense. Even TSMC 7FF uses plain non-immersion litho for metal 7 and on.

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Re:Intel: EUV-Enabled 7nm Process Tech is on Track by ksec on Monday December 10, 2018 @03:46AM (#18646268)

>makes little sense.

They are doing 7FF+ in 2019 with few steps in EUV already. GF and Samsung also have similar schedule. You don't have to trust me. You could look at their investor meeting notes or report from Anandtech.

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Re:Intel: EUV-Enabled 7nm Process Tech is on Track by baybal2 on Monday December 10, 2018 @04:11AM (#18646382)

Yes, but they are not gonna be using EUV for every layer. The only way it makes economical sense is where they replace horrific SAQP layers with a single exposure EUV pass, and use conventional litho for the rest to maximise throughput.

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