After a plunge to 16% of the semiconductor equipment market in 2009, the lithography sector surged in 2010 to a 26.5% share of the global market, according to The Information Netwo...
ASML has recently invited DRAM companies to make early reservations for extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography tools to avoid a repeat of early 2010, when immersion scanners saw constrained...
Extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography is likely to reach mass production in 2014 at the earliest, according to Luc Van den hove, president and CEO of Belgian researcher IMEC. But...
With a shortage on ASML's NXT:1950i, some Taiwan-based DRAM manufacturers will not receive shipments of the equipment for another 12 months, which is hampering their transition beyond...
Macronix International has announced an equipment purchase worth 76.44 million euro (US$100.72 million) from ASML, which supplies lithography systems, via a company filing with the...
Two issues potentially might negatively impact second-half DRAM availability and push what is left of the year into undersupply, according to iSuppli. Bottlenecks in the availability...
The lead time for ASML's latest immersion system, the NXT:1950i, has been extended to almost 12 months, prompting some Taiwan-based DRAM makers to switch to alternative products,...
DRAM maker Powerchip Technology has announced an equipment purchase worth NT$1.53 billion (US$47 million) from ASML, which supplies lithography systems.
With chip customers becoming more aggressive about capital spending, ASML now expects net sales for 2010 to grow 10-15% above its historical peak level of 3.8 billion euros (US$4.8...
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) will take delivery of its first extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography system from ASML in 2011 paving the way for the company to...
Lithography equipment supplier ASML has rehired 700 employees that were previously laid off, as well as recruiting several hundreds of new staff, to meet a big surge in demand for...
Inotera Memory, a DRAM-manufacturing joint venture between Micron Technology and Nanya Technology, recently announced three separate purchases totaling around NT$5.69 billion (US$177...
DRAM maker Inotera Memories has reported the purchase of NT$5.934 billion (US$188.8 million) worth of semiconductor equipment from lithography equipment vendor ASML, according to...
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has announced the purchase of equipment worth NT$2.06 billion (US$66 million) from ASML, which supplies lithography systems.
Worldwide semiconductor capital equipment spending totaled US$16.6 billion in 2009, a 45.8% decline from 2008, according to Gartner. In major segments, wafer fab equipment dropped...
