| | | ASML slips as Canon unveils advanced tool to create advanced semiconductors
Oct. 13, 2023 8:37 AM ET
By: Chris Ciaccia, SA News Editor
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Dutch semiconductor equipment company ASML (NASDAQ: ASML) fell around 1.5% in pre-market trading on Friday as Canon ( OTCPK:CAJPY) ( OTCPK:CAJFF), the Japanese company best known for cameras and printers, said it has started selling advanced machines to create leading-edge semiconductors.
Canon said its nanoimprint semiconductor manufacturing systems are easier and simpler to use than ASML's extreme lithography machine. The machine, known as the FPA-1200NZ2C, can make semiconductors the same as a 5 nanometer process and go as small as 2 nanometers.
For context, the A17 Pro, Apple's ( AAPL) most powerful chip inside the iPhone 15 Pro, is 3 nanometers.
ASML's EUV machines are extremely large in size - roughly the size of a bus - and can cost around $200M.
Canon did not say how much the FPA-1200NZ2C machine will cost, though it is aimed at semiconductor foundries, such as Taiwan Semiconductor ( TSM), which already purchases EUV lithography tools from ASML.
Late last month, TF International Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo said ASML ( ASML) could slash shipments for the extreme ultraviolet lithography, or EUV, technology, due to a number of reasons, including lower demand from Apple ( AAPL) for 3 nanometer chips. |
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