Because ZTE was banned by the U.S. Department of Commerce, this high-end equipment known only to the industry is also known to the public, which is photolithography, which is one of the most critical equipment for the production of chips. The highest-end lithography machine a can sell 100 million dollars, and also have to queue up to buy, even if the order is generally 21 months to supply.
The world's high-end lithography from the Netherlands ASML, Chinese name Asmay, the world's top lithography manufacturer currently accounts for more than 90% of the world's high-end high-resolution lithography market share, that is to say, ASML is in an absolute monopoly.
ASML is independent from the famous electronics manufacturer Philips, focusing on high-end technology research and development, and producing high-end lithography. The company's business strategy has two main features, one is to carry out global procurement to ensure access to the most advanced components, and the second is to prioritize the supply of investors, so IBM, TSMC, Samsung, Intel and so on have a share of the company, which is to ensure that ASML that is to ensure that there is sufficient research and development funds and can be enough to control the market sales of high-end products.
ASML's newest product, the EUV, or Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography, is expected to be supplied to SMIC in 2019, which is the world's highest-end and only lithography machine capable of producing chips up to 10 nanometers, which has a huge impact on the development of the IC industry.
There is a high-tech company in the Netherlands called ASML, or Asmay in Chinese, which is a company specializing in the production of machines for manufacturing electronic chips, and is headquartered in Veldhoven, N.H. The machines produced here are currently worth about 100 million euros each, and the orders have been lined up for next year. The plan is to supply 22 units this year and at least 30 units next year.
This Dutch company, Asmac, is a world leader in chip manufacturing, and its customers include chip giants such as IBM, TSMC and Intel. Asmarc's share of the market for this product, currently at 90%, competes with Canon and Nikon in Japan.
With the popularity of cell phones, PDAs, and a variety of electronic devices, the demand for electronic chips is growing. Peter Wennink, the company's president, said last year that the demand is many and growing. It is estimated that by 2020 there will be 50 billion computers and Internet connections around the world, so there is a huge amount of demand for chips for computing and memory.
Asmax was originally a division of the Dutch electronics giant Philips to develop semiconductor products, and then separated from Philips, and Philips in 1984 to form a new company, the merger of the company's ASM International and Philips, with the name ASM Lithography, or ASML for short.
Asmax is the world's largest semiconductor company, and the world's largest semiconductor company. >
Over the years, the company has continued to innovate and introduce new generations of products, maintaining its position as a world leader. From initially being able to produce chips of only 45 nanometers (Nanometer), with new technology, in 2024, new machines will be launched to make chips of only 3 nanometers.
The company, since 1995, has been listed in Amsterdam and NASDAQ in the United States.
A few days ago, the company announced that it was hiring 3,000 people worldwide as it released its latest results. Peter Wennink, president of the company, said that the Dutch domestic expertise in this area has been sorted out one by one, and foreign talent must be brought in, otherwise it will be difficult for the company to get more development. The president said, now everyone is talking about Bitcoin, blockchain, artificial intelligence, automated cars, etc., has not yet mentioned the cell phone and cloud computing, and all of this, can not be separated from the chip industry, and the chip industry is not missing the basis of manufacturing, which is the basis of the foundation!
Last year, the company's global a **** more than 100,000 people seeking employment, and ultimately hired 2,500 people, 40% of whom are Dutch, the rest are foreigners, employing more than half of the people working in the Netherlands.
According to 2016 figures, there are almost 170,000 employees company-wide a***, of which more than 2,600 are temporary positions, with employees coming from more than 100 countries.
At a talent forum organized under the auspices of the Association of Chinese Scholars and Engineers in the Netherlands, some Chinese scholars working at ASML called on Chinese professionals to seek employment at ASML.
This is the famous ASML. As the top of the world's chip industry chain and food chain, ASML's lithography is one of the most expensive and highest priced products on the planet, and the key is that it has a very high technological content, and it is the only one in the world.
Asics Cat is Philips' earliest industry, and then slowly independent, the outside world can not allow such a key product is placed under the Philips account, or let it remain relatively independent better, and later, including Samsung and a few chip industry giants, also bought some Asics Cat's shares, the core or not to let a single one of the big.
Acecat's bullishness, not only lies in its monopoly of the chip industry's most powerful lithography, and its industry chain is also focused on the German optical giant Zeiss, Japan's optical giant Nikon Canon, etc., for the chip industry from 14nm to 7nm evolution, the role of Acecat is unquestionable.
It's not that China doesn't want to develop photolithography, but it is said that China's current technological limit for photolithography is a few tens of nanometers, which is almost a few decades behind Ascat.
Of course, there is a good news recently is that Ascat is not absolutely blocked to China, it seems to have sold a lithography machine to a Chinese company this year, but of course, we have to consider that Ascat's annual production is too low, and it is not yet known exactly when it can deliver.
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What company in the Netherlands so cattle, a machine 100 million euros? It is the world's largest chip lithography equipment market supplier Asmac (ASML).
ASML Holding NV (NASDAQ: ASML, Euronext: ASML) was founded in 1984, is a semiconductor equipment manufacturer independent from Philips. Formerly known as ASM Lithography Holding N.V., which changed to its current name in 2001, the company is headquartered in Veldhoven, the Netherlands, and employs 12,168 full-time employees as a semiconductor equipment designer, manufacturer, and sales company.
Currently, the majority of the world's semiconductor manufacturers, such as Intel, Samsung, Hynix, TSMC, UMC, GeForce, and other semiconductor fabs, are purchasing TWINSCAN models from ASML. With Moore's Law, chips are moving to below 7nm, which requires a more advanced EUV lithography system, and only ASML's NXE:3400B is able to meet the demand globally.
How does ASML's lithography help power chips? Let's take a look at ASML's official presentation:
Simply put, this lithography device is a projection system. This device is assembled from 50,000 parts.
In practice, a laser beam is projected through a printed blueprint or photomask, optics focus the pattern on a silicon wafer with a light-sensitive chemical coating, and when the unexposed portion of the wafer is etched away, the pattern is revealed...
This process is repeated over and over again to create billions of tiny microstructures on a single chip. structures on a single chip. The wafers are stacked on top of each other with a precision of 2 nanometers, and are accelerated to move as fast as lightning to achieve this precision, which is considered high tech, bearing in mind that even a hair strand is 100,000 nanometers, so 2 nanometers is as fine as you can imagine.
Friends, through my brief introduction is not to grow some knowledge? Finally, I wish that we, China, can catch up in the field of science and technology!
This company is the Dutch company asml, which mainly produces photolithography, in 2017, the company sold 198 photolithography machines, monopolizing 80% of the high-end photolithography market. All chip makers have to buy asml lithography or they can't produce chips at all, and they must buy the latest lithography.
But even so, asml lithography is still in short supply, you need to book in advance, otherwise it is simply too late to produce, it is reported that 80% of this year's products are booked last year, if not booked in advance simply can not buy asml lithography.
Which company do you think can do a good job with Chinese chips? Xiaomi or Huawei?Dutch lithography giant ASML, full name Advanced Semiconductor Material Lithography (Advanced Semiconductor Material Lithography), is a company based in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, and is now the world's top semiconductor equipment manufacturer.
By the U.S.-China trade, this Dutch company in China, but they do have a strength, because they occupy 70% of the global lithography market, can be said to be the world's top semiconductor processing equipment manufacturers, and Nikon and Canon and ASML gap is not a half a star.
In 1984, world electrical giant Philips and semiconductor manufacturer ASMI joined forces and formed ASML to focus on developing lithography systems. At the beginning of the venture, Philips only invested 2.1 million dollars in ASML, and the entire ASML team was only a few dozen people. Just from this amount and team size can be seen at the time of the ASML how difficult it is. Previously, ASML was just a brand under Philips.
In 1995, ASML went public in Amsterdam and New York, and Philips then gradually sold off all its shares in ASML.
Around 2001, ASML introduced a dual-workstation lithography machine called TWINSCAN.
In 2006, ASML prototyped its first EUV lithography machine.
In 2012, ASML began to invite its major customers Intel, Samsung and TSMC to take an equity stake in themselves, amortizing up to a billion euros a year in research and development costs, and joint manufacturing of mass-production EUV lithography, and also guaranteed to give priority to the above three companies to supply. In this way, the world's three largest chip manufacturing companies have also completed the bundling of interests with ASML, forming a joint venture with capital and technology casting interests.
This is why Intel, Samsung, and TSMC are the only three companies whose current chip processing technology has been leading the world's semiconductor manufacturing industry.
Today, ASML occupies more than 70% of the global lithography market, and is a dominant player in the field of high-end EUV lithography. As a manufacturing company, the gross profit margin can reach 44% per year, almost at the same level as the asset-light Internet giant.
The Netherlands Asmax (ASML) a small company of 200 people, which is well known for the production of chip manufacturing equipment - photolithography complete sets of equipment. This kind of equipment is the only one in the world, and are usually lined up for reservations. Asmac (ASML) production is not high, annual production of only 5 to 6 sets of equipment. Because ASML equipment contains part of the U.S. technology, the U.S. uses this as a reason to suppress Huawei and restrict the sale of this equipment to China.
In fact, the development of Asmac (ASML) once encountered a technological bottleneck when TSMC engineers had a major contribution to its breakthrough bottlenecks, the engineer later left TSMC for other reasons with Zhang Rujing back to the mainland to found SMIC, which has now gone through 20 years. Today, SMIC has become China's national team in the field of chip manufacturing. After all, photolithography is the most accurate and technically complex equipment in the world. We believe that SMIC has been working hard to break through the technological bottleneck of photolithography. "A long wind will break the waves, and a straight cloud sail can help us cross the ocean".
SMIC will eventually enable the Chinese people to have a day to raise their eyebrows!
ASML Corporation (full name: Advanced Semiconductor Material Lithography), known in Chinese as ASML (Mainland China) and ASML (Taiwan, China). Headquartered in Veldhoven, the Netherlands, ASML is one of the world's largest semiconductor equipment manufacturers, providing leading-edge, comprehensive and critical equipment to the world's complex integrated circuits producers.ASML's shares are listed in Amsterdam and New York, respectively.
Headquartered in Veldhoven, the Netherlands, ASML is Europe's second-largest high-tech company in terms of per capita research spending, with global net sales of more than 4.5 billion euros in 2010, and 222 machines sold in 2011
, with global net sales of 5.651 billion euros and a net profit of 1.467 billion euros. As of 2011, the global market share is 75%.
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ASML Headquarter, Veldhoven, The Netherlands
Products and Services
ASML provides lithography and related services for semiconductor manufacturers, and the TWINSCAN series is the world's most accurate, productive, and widely used high-end lithography machine. The TWINSCAN series is the world's most accurate, productive, and widely used high-end lithography machine. Currently, the majority of the world's semiconductor manufacturers, such as Intel, Samsung, Hynix, TSMC, SMIC, etc., purchase TWINSCAN models from ASML.
ASML's product line is divided into PAS series, AT series, XT series and NXT series, of which the PAS series light source for high-pressure mercury lamp light source, has been discontinued, AT series belongs to the old model, most of which has been discontinued. The main models on the market are the XT series and the NXT series, for the ArF and KrF laser light source, the XT series is a mature model, divided into dry and immersed in two kinds, and the NXT series is now the main push of the high-end models, all for the immersed.
The most advanced model commercially available today is the Twinscan NXT 1950i, an immersion lithography machine used to produce integrated circuits at critical scales below 38 nanometers.
There are currently three lithography vendors in the market that offer commercial mass production: ASML, Nikon, and Canon. According to 2007 statistics, ASML holds about 60% of the market share in the mid-to-high-end lithography market. At the top end of the market (e.g. immersion lithography), ASML currently holds about 80% of the market. However, competitor Nikon is also struggling to catch up, with the main advantage being relatively low prices.
In China
ASML has been committed to expanding and collaborating in the Chinese market, including Hong Kong, and has now opened branches in Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, and Wuxi to provide timely service and consulting to customers. With the expansion of the company's business and the development of China's semiconductor industry, we believe that Dalian, Chengdu, Chongqing, Wuhan and other emerging semiconductor bases will also be included in ASML's territory, and we are confident that we will work together with China's semiconductor industry practitioners to pave the way for technological innovation and market expansion. ASML has already signed scholarship and research cooperation agreements with Zhejiang University, Dalian University of Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shanghai Jiaotong University, and other prestigious institutions of higher learning, in order to cultivate and attract local talent and make its own contribution.
This company, called Asmac, is the world's top photolithography manufacturer, and there is no other company in the world that can compete with it.
At present, the only company that can produce lithography in China is Shanghai Microelectronics (SMEE), which occupies 80% of the market share in China. But even China's most advanced lithography manufacturer is only capable of 90nm lithography. And this bull Asmax ASML company, has been able to produce 7nm, or even 5nm EUV lithography, the gap is really not a generation or two.
1, the establishment of ASMLBefore the birth of Asmac, the lithography field is the world of Sony. Because the core technology used in photolithography is light-sensitive and projection, Sony camera technology is world-renowned, do photolithography naturally water into, for example, we used to often use the CD, and this is more similar.
When Asmax was founded, it wanted no technology, no talent, and very little money, until they started working with Philips Labs, and only then did he begin his path to take off.
In fact, as early as a few years ago, Philips Labs developed an automated step lithography (Stepper) prototype. But they had no confidence in it, and begged to work with other major manufacturers, but no one took him seriously. Later, Asmax saw this opportunity to pursue this white beauty, Philips Labs look down on this short and poor, consider more than a year, see really no one to take the plate, before considering marrying it, the establishment of a joint venture of half of the equity.
2, beyond Sonyand Philips set up a joint venture, but also just let ASML in the lithography industry foothold. But the lithography industry is still Sony's world, ASML's market share for a long time not more than 10%, by Sony far behind, until the emergence of a generation of cattleman Lin Benjian.
Before that, the production of photolithography has been using air as the medium of the "dry" projection technology, but the development of this technology to a certain stage encountered a bottleneck, that is, it has not been possible to shorten the 193nm wavelength of the lithography light source to 157nm.
At that time, the world's semiconductor industry scientists, all committed to photolithography.
At that time, scientists from all over the world were engaged in the field of photolithography, and many programs were proposed, but either they were not feasible, or they were too far ahead of their time, and none of them could be used.
At the time, TSMC R&D Deputy General Manager Benjamin Lin also noticed this problem, he considered if 157nm is difficult to break through, why not return to the mature technology of 193nm, the lens and the medium between the wafer from the air to water, so that you can break through the limitations of the 157nm, will be the wavelength of the small to 132nm. this program has been become the So even though Benjamin Lin was selling his technology, no company was willing to buy it, until he met Asmay.
After joining Asmac, Benjamin Lin quickly solved a series of problems with immersion lithography, and achieved cooperation with Inter and TSMC. Later, Asmac also cooperated with TSMC, and both sides*** jointly developed the world's first immersion microfilm. This technology is more advanced than Sony's dry microphotography technology technology, and the cost is also lower, so it quickly seized the market belonging to Sony.
By 2009, Asmax had already occupied 70% of the market share, Sony also from many years the boss, suffocated to become the second.
3, the United States of America to helpAlthough Asmay temporarily won the competition with Sony, but Sony also drew strength to catch up. But the United States sidelined, directly extinguished all the fantasies of Sony.
Intel and the U.S. Department of Energy *** with the launch of the EUV LLC organization, bringing together the top U.S. research resources and chip giants, including Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory and Sandia National Laboratories and other three major national laboratories, combined with Motorola (at the time, as in the days of the world), AMD and other companies, invested $ 225 million in funding, focusing on the Hundreds of top scientists, just for one thing: extreme ultraviolet lithography in the end is not feasible?
But Sony was excluded from such an important organization because of US government intervention.
This was a time when Sony was left to do all the research and technology on its own, while Asmac was gathering the world's best minds to enjoy the fruits of the world's semiconductor field.
Later on, Asmax also acquired the US lithography giant SVGL (Silicon Valley Lithography Group) and the US excimer laser source company Cymer in 2013, respectively, to open up the production chain of extreme ultraviolet lithography. Then, Asmax produced the extreme ultraviolet lithography machine with 5nm fabrication process, which completely established the leading position.
The above is the development experience of Asmac, it can be said that Asmac's success is certainly the result of their own hard work, but also the crystallization of the world, is the world's best scientists efforts, step by step to break through the lithography of all kinds of limitations, the achievements of the Asmac now defy the group of the dominant position.
So, many times we talk about how China is so big and powerful, and why we can't even build a photolithography machine, we should think about whether China's one country's talent can match the wisdom of the world. Even so, our scientists and entrepreneurs are still doing, this is a helpless move, but also our great nation's rise is a must.