ASML to Deliver Advanced Resolution Techniques to SEMATECH for Manufacturing Research.VELDHOVEN, the Netherlands -- ASML Holding ASML is a Dutch company and the world’s primary supplier of lithography systems for the semiconductor industry. Of all the major chip producers worldwide, more than 80% are ASML customers. NV (ASML ASML Abstract State Machine Language ASML Anisotropic Shielded Microstrip Line ) announced today that semiconductor R&D consortium SEMATECH SEMATECH Semiconductor Manufacturing Technology has awarded ASML a contract to qualify the imaging performance of advanced logic patterns, metrology structures and defect designs for the 45-nanometer (nm), 32-nm, and 22-nm technology nodes. SEMATECH, together with its subsidiary, the International SEMATECH Manufacturing Initiative (ISMI ISMI Institute for the Study of Modern Israel (Emory University) ISMI International Student Mobility Initiative ), is creating these advanced designs which will incorporate ASML's resolution enhancement techniques (RETs) in the form of proprietary and patented mask technologies as well as scanner optimization settings. "We're proud that SEMATECH and ISMI chose ASML to participate in developing lithography solutions for advanced manufacturing," said Dinesh Bettadapur, president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. , ASML MaskTools. "As a company, we are committed to providing the semiconductor industry with a complete and tightly integrated solutions portfolio as exemplified by our leading edge immersion scanners, innovative mask technologies, and software products for scanner-mask optimization." ASML will supply advanced RET mask patterns for the SEMATECH design structures and deliver a fully qualified set of masks together with a set of validation wafers. ASML will also develop optimized scanner settings for the mask patterns which will be exposed on a TWINSCAN(TM) XT:1700i scanner at ASML's demo lab facility in Veldhoven. The company will further assist SEMATECH by measuring the imaging performance of the exposures through SEM measurements and simulations. "We are pleased to collaborate with ASML on determining the right lithography solutions for the 45-nm, 32-nm, and 22-nm technology nodes," said John Allgair, Litho Metrology program manager for International SEMATECH Manufacturing Initiative, SEMATECH's manufacturing-oriented subsidiary. "We are looking forward to reviewing the results from this project and making some key technology selection information available to our member companies." About ASML ASML is the world's leading provider of lithography systems for the semiconductor industry, manufacturing complex machines that are critical to the production of integrated circuits Integrated circuits Miniature electronic circuits produced within and upon a single semiconductor crystal, usually silicon. Integrated circuits range in complexity from simple logic circuits and amplifiers, about 1/20 in. (1. or chips. Headquartered in Veldhoven, the Netherlands, ASML is traded on Euronext Amsterdam and NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on under the symbol ASML. |
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