US startup Substrate announces chipmaking tool that it says will rival ASML

Post by pshirshov » Tue, Nov 04, 2025, 4:42 PM UTC

Post by giva » Tue, Nov 04, 2025, 4:43 PM UTC

chasil wrote: post #8

Japan has also made some strides in this area, reported here a few months ago. "Professor Shintake aligned two axis-symmetric mirrors in a straight line and used a total of only four mirrors instead of ten. "Because highly absorbent EUV light weakens by 40% with each reflection, only about 1% of the energy from the light source reaches the wafer when bounced off ten mirrors while more than 10% does when only four mir…

Post by Ekaros » Tue, Nov 04, 2025, 4:49 PM UTC

Post by toomuchtodo » Tue, Nov 04, 2025, 4:50 PM UTC

ChrisArchitect wrote: post #3

Related: Can Substrate disrupt ASML using particle acceleration? https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/technology/can-a-start-up... ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45732431 ) See also: Return to Silicon Valley https://substrate.com/our-purpose ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45741489 )

Post by [deleted] » Tue, Nov 04, 2025, 4:51 PM UTC

Ekaros wrote: post #15

When will production line be build and operational? When will the new chips ship? This or next quarter?