


The competition for node equipment below 2nm begins, TSMC Wei Zhejia secretly visits ASML headquarters
News from this site on May 28, according to Korean media Business Korea, TSMC CEO Wei Zhejia put aside the "TSMC 2024 Technical Seminar" held by himself on May 23, went to the Netherlands to visit ASML in Eindhoven headquarters, as well as a visit to industrial laser specialist TRUMPF in Ditzingen, Germany.
ASML CEO Christophe Fouquet and TRUMPF CEO Nicola Leibinger-Kammüller revealed the whereabouts of President Wei’s secret visit through social media.


Fuke CEO said: “We introduced our How the latest technologies and new products, including high numerical aperture ratio (High NA) EUV devices, will enable future semiconductor microprocessing technologies.”
It was reported on May 14 that Dr. Zhang Xiaoqiang of TSMC said at a technical seminar held in Amsterdam on May 14: “ASML’s High-NA EUV is too expensive, and I like High-NA EUV very much. Capabilities, but don’t like the price.”
TSMC is considering introducing High NA EUV equipment into the process after the 1.6nm product A16 that will be mass-produced in the second half of 2026, while using existing Low NA EUV equipment before then.
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