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The world's two top foundries are, in order, TSMC and Samsung Foundry. Both started working extreme ultraviolet lithography into their chip production back in 2019 which set the stage for chips to be made using nodes under 7nm. You see, lithography machines etch circuitry patterns onto silicon wafers to help build semiconductors. The lower the process node, the smaller the chip's feature set including transistors.
The next generation of extreme ultraviolet lithography machines has already started shipping. Intel, which promised to take back process node leadership in 2025 from TSMC and Samsung Foundry,which increases the numerical aperture from 0.33 to 0.55. This allows the machine to reduce the smallest feature it can print by 1.7 times and increase the transistor density of a chip by 2.9 times.
However, Intel is still dealing with low yields, red ink, and a tumbling stock price which got the company's shares booted from the U.S. stock market's 30-stock Dow Industrial bellwether where it was replaced by Nvidia. Things are going so poorly for Intel that it is outsourcing its production down to 3nm to TSMC.
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