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\u201cNew York State is leading the nation in semiconductor manufacturing and R&D, and the installation of this tool for the High NA EUV Lithography Center will allow New York to remain at the forefront of chip innovation,\u201d Hochul said in a statement.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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High NA EUV lithography is considered vital to being able to make next-generation chips, including those used in artificial intelligence applications. The technology is so important for military and economic uses that the U.S. government has worked with ASML to prohibit it from selling its new machines to China.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The chips race with China led to Congress passing the CHIPS and Science Act, which provided $52 billion in subsidies to chip manufacturers to build new factories in the U.S. The CHIPS and Science Act also spurred the creation of a new federal chip research program, which the new High NA\u00a0EUV center at Albany NanoTech is part of.<\/p>\n
Hochul has made high-tech research and manufacturing a priority for her administration and earmarked $1 billion in state money for the High NA Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography Center. The new building that will house the lithography center,\u00a0NanoFab Reflection, is expected to cost $600 million to build.<\/p>\n
The\u00a0ASML machine alone can cost up to $400 million. The other members of the center, including TEL, are putting up the remaining $9 billion in equipment and spending needed for the center, which will focus on the lithography stage of chip-making in which the microscopic design for individual chips is \u201cetched\u201d onto a 12-inch silicon wafer.<\/p>\n
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Today\u2019s chips are only just now being made using High NA EUV machines. NY Creates, the nonprofit that owns Albany NanoTech, was able to get one of the first High NA EUV machines from ASML through its relationship with Micron Technology, the memory chipmaker that is building a manufacturing campus outside of Syracuse. Micron allowed NY Creates to essentially jump the line and buy one of the new machines that it had planned to buy from\u00a0ASML as it expands in New York and Idaho as part of the CHIPS and Science Act.<\/p>\n
That lithography process starts with a special light-sensitive, or photo-resist, coating being applied to the wafer. This is done by the TEL machine, the CLEAN TRACK LITHIUS Pro DICE.<\/p>\n
The wafer is then exposed to extreme ultraviolet light in the TWINSCAN EXE: 5200B machine.<\/p>\n
The wafers are then returned to the CLEAN TRACK\u00a0LITHIUS Pro DICE, where a solvent is applied, revealing the chip design.<\/p>\n
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TEL makes an older version of its coater and developer machine called the\u00a0LITHIUS Pro Z, which\u00a0has been in use for a decade in chip factories. The new model is designed to work with extreme ultraviolet lithography and was introduced to the market in December.<\/p>\n
TEL donated the new tool to NY Creates as part of the $10 billion lithography program.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe installation of the\u00a0LITHIUS Pro DICE system at the Albany NanoTech Complex High NA EUV Lithography Center underscores what is possible when the semiconductor ecosystem comes together with a shared commitment to innovation,\u201d said Alex\u00a0Oscilowski, president of TEL Technology Center America, TEL\u2019s operation at Albany NanoTech. \u201cAs High NA EUV comes online, it will accelerate advances in AI, high-performance computing, and the technologies that will shape how the world connects, computes and creates.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Air filters are installed in a clean room at the new NanoFab Reflection building on\u00a0Feb. 25 at the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":193502,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[30394,288,844,610,9,11,10,49,51,50],"class_list":{"0":"post-193501","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-alco","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-latestnews","11":"tag-local","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-headlines","14":"tag-new-york-news","15":"tag-new-york-state","16":"tag-new-york-state-headlines","17":"tag-new-york-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193501\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}