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ASML CEO: Received Second Order For Prototype EUV Tool

http://biz.yahoo.com/djus/040220/0726000451_7.html
EUV is known in the industry as the next generation of lithography technology, which makes the lithography process - or printing circuits on the surface of silicon wafers - more efficient and cheaper, by shrinking the size of the transistors that serve as switches on semiconductors.

EUV is expected to enable production of chips with circuits with widths of less than 32 nanometers - about the smallest considered possible in the near future.

In April, ASML announced it had received the first order in the industry for an EUV preproduction tool. It came from Intel, and ASML said it will deliver the tool late 2005.

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