{"id":998944,"date":"2026-03-20T10:01:44","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T04:31:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=998944"},"modified":"2026-03-23T11:49:33","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T06:19:33","slug":"belgiums-imec-secures-rare-asml-high-na-euv-tool-to-drive-next-generation-chips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/03\/20\/belgiums-imec-secures-rare-asml-high-na-euv-tool-to-drive-next-generation-chips\/","title":{"rendered":"Belgium&#8217;s imec secures rare ASML High NA EUV tool to drive next-generation chips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LEUVEN, Belgium: Belgian chip research lab imec said on Wednesday it has secured an ASML $400-million High NA EUV lithography machine&#8211;one of \u200cfewer than a \u2060dozen worldwide&#8211;cementing \u2060its role in preparing next-generation chipmaking tools for industry use.<\/p>\n<p>ASML customers, including Intel and SK Hynix, are preparing to use High NA tools&#8211;which promise much smaller chip circuitry&#8211;to make new AI logic and high bandwidth memory chips as early as 2027.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LEUVEN, Belgium: Belgian chip research lab imec said on Wednesday it has secured an ASML $400-million High NA EUV lithography machine&#8211;one of \u200cfewer than a \u2060dozen worldwide&#8211;cementing \u2060its role in preparing next-generation chipmaking tools for industry use. ASML customers, including Intel and SK Hynix, are preparing to use High NA tools&#8211;which promise much smaller chip circuitry&#8211;to make new AI logic and high bandwidth memory chips as early as 2027.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-998944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=998944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998944\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=998944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=998944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=998944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}