News New 'stamping' chipmaking technique uses 90% less power than EUV — Canon to ship the first nanoimprint litho tools to customers this year or next

[Admin]

Canon's nanoimprint lithography tools will ship either this year or next, they will address 3D NAND manufacturing first.

New 'stamping' chipmaking technique uses 90% less power than EUV — Canon to ship the first nanoimprint litho tools to customers this year or next : Read more

 

[bluvg]

Isn't another issue that it has significantly lower output volume?

 

[maarten5]

When a litho machine costs over 100 million, the power bill becomes small.

Anyway, I understood implanters (tools to dope the silicon) use far more power anyway.

 

[bit_user]

When a litho machine costs over 100 million, the power bill becomes small.

I dunno... what I've heard about the light source they use for EUV is pretty mind-blowing. Might want to look it up, as I'm too fuzzy on the details to attempt stating them from memory and don't remember exactly where I read it.

Maybe power is still not the dominant cost, but in terms of operating costs I think it's probably non-trivial.