ASML says first chips from new High-NA machines to arrive in months

ASML expects ​to see ​the first products created on ​the company's new High-NA machines within months, the chief executive of ‌the world's ⁠top ⁠computer chip equipment maker, Christophe ​Fouquet, said on Tuesday.

The tool will ​bring down costs for patterning, or creating the circuitry of ​the most advanced ⁠chips, for ‌both logic and ​memory ​applications, Fouquet said, speaking ⁠at a conference in Belgium ​organised by research firm imec.

"In ​the next few months, we will be looking at the first few products wherever, in memory, in ‌logic, being exposed on the High-NA system", the ​CEO ​said.


Fouquet's remarks ⁠come weeks after top customer TSMC said High-NA tools, which can cost ​up to $400 million each, were too expensive.