European companies and research institutes have finally introduced a revolutionary new manufacturing technology for mass-producing powerful microchips after more than 20 years of intensive joint development work. It's been dubbed EUV lithography by industry insiders.
Extreme ultraviolet, or EUV, allows for the production of microchips that are far more powerful, energy-efficient, and inexpensive than ever before.
Lithography involves beaming extremely thin beams of light onto silicon wafers that have been coated with "photoresist" chemicals using an EUV machine. Where the light comes into contact with the chemicals, the patterns that were laid out previously are produced on the wafer. As a result, transistors are formed, allowing electric current to travel around a circuit. A chip with more transistors has better power and efficiency.
Source: INTERESTING ENGINEERING
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