Intel bets its future on exotic, expensive tool that shoots lasers hotter than the sun

Published on: 04/18/2024

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A High NA EUV manufacturing tool inside Intel's D1X research factory in Hillsboro. The 150-ton lithography equipment enables chipmakers to imprint tiny patterns on silicon wafers to create microscopic circuitry for computer chips. Dutch company ASML is the only company in the world making the tool. Intel's model is one of two in the world. Its

Workers inside Intel factories famously dress in white, cloaked from head to toe in bunny suits. That keeps particles from their skin, hair or clothing from ruining the microscopic features on computer chips.

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