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Re:Intel Starts Shipping High-NA EUV Silicon by llm_nerd on Wednesday July 22, 2026 @09:33AM (#49006540)
EUV was "invented" (demonstrated) in Japan first, though those US labs did a lot of work on the overall lithography system and reflective optics to put it into practice. The US DOE along with the manufacturers made a consortium (EUV LLC consortium) to commercialize/scale that Japanese technology because they could obviously see the promise, and Cymer is a member, as was ASML already via SVG.

Simultaneously Japan created its own initiative (EUVA), and Gigaphoton didn't rely upon the US initiative at all. And again in an alternate universe -- one where Japan isn't protectionist and Cymer wasn't out of financial runway and desperate -- we'd be talking about how ASML is really Japanese tech, etc.

Re:Intel Starts Shipping High-NA EUV Silicon by lokar on Wednesday July 22, 2026 @12:03PM (#49008933)
This video:

https://youtu.be/MiUHjLxm3V0

Has a lot of the history