Samsung Vice Chairman Lee Jae-yong recently visited the Netherlands to lay the foundations for the South Korean giant’s semiconductor value chain.
Chipmakers racing to expand production amid a global shortage are competing to secure Dutch chipmaking equipment supplier ASML’s EUV lithography systems—devices essential to making advanced microchips.
EUV stands for “extreme ultraviolet,” the wavelength of light used by ASML’s most advanced machines.
These machines are imperative for producing advanced semiconductors below the 7-nanometer process, allowing chipmakers to create smaller, higher-performing chips with greater production efficiency at reduced costs.
Smaller is better in chipmaking, as the more transistors that are packed into the same space, the faster and more energy efficient a chip can be….