Re:ASML EUV Lithography Machine Could Keep Moore’s Law on Track
by sbierwagen on Sunday July 30, 2023 @01:31AM
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You could write a litany of sorrows just on the mirrors! You have to replace everything with mirrors. Collimation optics, lenses, the damn mask, throwing away decades of work and starting again! All in awful conditions (hard vacuum, every surface in the container slowly being coated in vaporized tin, when they're not being destroyed by EUV light itself...)
Hell, people complain about Moore's Law being delayed by EUV, in any other field it would have taken a decade to switch!
If they gave out Nobels for industrial science, ASML would have a dozen already. Rather reminds me of The Soul of a New Machine... long nights, impossible odds, heroic effort to solve unsolvable problems, all rewarded with a $50 bonus and being told to move onto the next task.
Hell, people complain about Moore's Law being delayed by EUV, in any other field it would have taken a decade to switch!
If they gave out Nobels for industrial science, ASML would have a dozen already. Rather reminds me of The Soul of a New Machine... long nights, impossible odds, heroic effort to solve unsolvable problems, all rewarded with a $50 bonus and being told to move onto the next task.