ANTWERP, May 19 (Reuters) – 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.
(Reporting by Toby Sterling in Antwerp and Nathan Vifflin in Gdansk. Editing by Mark Potter)
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