# How EUV lithography works

Over the years, semiconductors have drastically shrunk in size. Computers used to take up entire rooms, and now we have machines more powerful than the computers that guided NASA to the Moon sitting on our wrist. To find ways to make chips even smaller and more powerful, we have to work with new tools. Back in 2015, IBM Research argued that the future of chipmaking would require EUV lithography machines, which are now becoming the industry standard for chips with transistors just three or four nanometers wide. Learn more about what EUV lithography is, and how it relates to a centuries-old printing technique.

https://research.ibm.com/semiconductors

EUV #eda #semiconductors #chiplets

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