Because ZTE was banned by the U.S. Department of Commerce, this kind of high-end equipment that only people in the industry know is also known to the public. This is mask aligner, which is one of the most critical devices in the production of chips. The top-end mask aligner can sell for $1 million, and you have to queue up to buy it, even if you place an order, it will not be available until 21 months later.
The world's top-end mask aligner comes from ASML, the Netherlands, whose Chinese name is ASML. At present, the world's top mask aligner manufacturer accounts for more than 9% of the market share of the world's top-end high-end mask aligner, which means that Asml is in an absolute monopoly position.
ASML in the Netherlands is independent from Philips, a famous electronics manufacturer, focusing on high-end technology research and development and producing high-end mask aligner. The company's business strategy has two characteristics: one is to purchase globally to ensure that the most advanced components can be obtained, and the other is to give priority to the supply to investors, so IBM, TSMC, Samsung and Intel all hold shares in the company, which not only ensures sufficient research and development funds for ASML, but also controls the market sales of high-end products.
ASML's latest product EUV, namely extreme ultraviolet mask aligner, is expected to be supplied to SMIC in 219. This equipment is the highest-end in the world and the only mask aligner that can produce chips below 1 nanometers, which has a great impact on the development of IC industry.
There is a high-tech company in the Netherlands called ASML, which is called ASML Company in Chinese. It is a company specializing in manufacturing electronic chip machines, and its headquarters is in Veldhoven, the Netherlands. The machines produced here are currently worth about 1 million euros each, and the orders have been scheduled for next year. It is planned to supply 22 sets this year and at least 3 sets next year.
This Dutch ASML company is the world leader in chip manufacturing, and its customers include chip giants such as IBM, TSMC and Intel. ASML's market share in this product has reached 9% at present, and its competitors are Japanese Canon and Nikon.
with the popularity of mobile phones, PDAs and various electronic devices, the demand for electronic chips is increasing. Peter Wennink, president of the company, said last year that there is a lot of demand and more and more. It is estimated that there will be 5 billion computers and Internet connections in the world by 22, so there is a great demand for chips for calculation and memory.
ASML was originally a research and development department of semiconductor products under Philips, a Dutch electronics giant. Later, it was separated from Philips. In 1984, it formed a new company with Philips, which was a merger of ASM International and Philips, and used the name of ASM Lithography, which is called ASML for short.
Over the years, the company has been constantly innovating and launching a new generation of products, maintaining a leading position in the world. From the initial production of chips with only 45 nanometers, new technology will be adopted, and in 224, a new machine for manufacturing chips with only 3 nanometers will be launched.
this company has been listed in Amsterdam and NASDAQ since 1995.
A few days ago, the company announced that it would recruit 3, people worldwide while publishing its latest results. Peter Wennink, president of the company, said that the professional and technical talents in this field in the Netherlands have been sorted out one by one, and foreign talents must be introduced, otherwise it is difficult for the company to achieve greater development. The president said that now everyone is talking about bitcoin, blockchain, artificial intelligence, automatic cars, etc., and has not mentioned mobile phones and cloud computing. All this is inseparable from the chip industry, and the chip industry is indispensable for manufacturing. This is the foundation of the foundation!
Last year, the company had more than 1, job seekers around the world, and finally hired 2,5 people, 4% of whom were Dutch, and the rest were foreigners. More than half of the employed people worked in the Netherlands.
according to the figures in 216, the company has nearly 17, employees, of which more than 2,6 are temporary positions, and the employees come from more than 1 countries.
At the talent forum hosted by the Dutch Association of Chinese Scholars and Engineers, some Chinese scholars working in ASML called on Chinese professionals to apply for jobs in ASML.
This is the famous Ascat Company. As the top product in the world's chip industry chain and food chain, AS Cat's mask aligner is one of the most expensive and expensive products on the planet, and the key family still has a very high scientific and technological content, which is the only one in the world without semicolons.
Ascat was originally an industry owned by Philips, and then it gradually became independent. The outside world did not allow such a key product to be placed under Philips' account, so it was better to keep it relatively independent. Later, several chip giants, including Samsung, also bought some shares in Ascat, but the core was still not to let one company dominate.
Ascat's strength lies not only in its monopoly of mask aligner, the most powerful chip industry, but also in its industrial chain, including German optical giant Zeiss and Japanese optical giant Nikon Canon. Ascat's role in the chip industry evolving from 14nm to 7nm is beyond doubt.
It's not that China doesn't want to develop mask aligner, but it's said that China's current technological limit in mask aligner is several tens of nanometers, which is almost several decades behind Ascat.
Of course, there is good news recently. Ascat is not absolutely banned from China. It seems that it sold a mask aligner to China enterprises this year. Of course, we have to consider that the annual output of Ascat is too low, and we don't know when it will be delivered.
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what company in the Netherlands is so awesome that one machine costs 1 million euros? It is ASML (ASML), the world's largest supplier of chip lithography equipment.
ASML ASML Holding NV(NASDAQ:ASML, Euronext:ASML) was founded in 1984, which is an independent semiconductor equipment manufacturer from Philips. ASM Lithography Holding N.V., formerly known as ASM Lithography Holding N.V., changed its current name in 21. Headquartered in Veldhoven, the Netherlands, it has 12,168 full-time employees and is a semiconductor equipment design, manufacturing and sales company.
At present, most semiconductor manufacturers in the world purchase TWINSCAN models from ASML, such as Intel, Samsung, Hynix, TSMC, UMC), Gexin and other semiconductor factories. With the development of Moore's Law, the chip is below 7nm, which requires a more advanced EUV lithography system. Only the NXE:34B of ASML can meet the demand in the world.
how does mask aligner of asml help the chip? We can take a look at the official introduction of ASML:
Simply put, this lithography equipment is a projection system. This equipment is assembled from 5 parts.
In actual use, the laser beam is projected through a blueprint or photomask printed with patterns, and the optical lens focuses the patterns on the silicon wafer with photosensitive chemical coating. When the unexposed parts are etched away, the patterns appear immediately ...
This process is repeated again and again to manufacture billions of microstructures on a single chip. Wafers are superimposed on each other with an accuracy of 2 nanometers, and move at an accelerated speed, as fast as lightning. It is high-tech to achieve this accuracy. You know, even hair is 1 thousand nanometers, and the fineness of 2 nanometers can be imagined.
friends, have you gained some knowledge through my brief introduction? Finally, I wish greater China a quick catch-up in the field of science and technology!
this company is the Dutch asml company, which mainly produces mask aligner. in 217, the company sold 198 mask aligner sets, monopolizing 8% of the high-end mask aligner market. All chip manufacturers must buy asml mask aligner, otherwise they can't produce chips at all, and they must buy the latest mask aligner.
However, even so, the demand for mask aligner in asml is still in short supply, so it is necessary to book in advance, otherwise it will be too late for production. It is reported that 8% of the products this year were booked last year, and you can't buy mask aligner in asml without booking in advance. Which company do you think can make China chips well? Xiaomi or Huawei?
the Dutch mask aligner giant ASML, whose full name is advanced semiconductor material lithography, is a company located in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, and is currently the world's top semiconductor equipment manufacturer.
Thanks to Sino-US trade, this Dutch enterprise is famous in China, but it does have a strength, because it occupies 7% of the global market in mask aligner, and it can be said that it is the world's top semiconductor processing equipment manufacturer at present, but the gap between Nikon, Canon and ASML is not a fraction of a star.
in 1984, Philips, the world's electrical giant, and ASMI, a semiconductor manufacturer, joined forces to form ASML, focusing on developing lithography systems. At the beginning of the venture, Philips only invested 2.1 million US dollars in ASML, and the entire ASML team was only a few dozen people. From this amount and team size alone, we can see how difficult ASML was at that time. The previous ASML was just a brand owned by Philips.
In 1995, ASML was listed in Amsterdam and new york, and then Philips gradually sold all its shares in ASML.
around 21, ASML introduced the twin table mask aligner.
in 26, ASML trial-produced the first EUV mask aligner prototype.
in 212, ASML began to invite its main customers, Intel, Samsung and TSMC, to share their own shares, share the annual R&D cost of up to one billion euros, and jointly manufacture mass-produced EUV mask aligner, and also promised to give priority to the supply to the last three companies. In this way, the world's three major chip manufacturers have also completed the interest binding with ASML, forming a consortium of interests cast by capital and technology.
This is why Intel, Samsung and TSMC are the only three companies whose current chip processing technology has been ahead of the world semiconductor manufacturing industry.
today, ASML occupies more than 7% of the global mask aligner market, and it is the only one in the high-end EUV mask aligner field. As a manufacturing enterprise, its gross profit margin can reach 44% every year, which is almost at the same level as that of big Internet companies with light assets.
a small company with more than 2 people in ASML, the Netherlands, which is a well-known chip manufacturing equipment-mask aligner complete equipment. This kind of equipment is the only one in the world, and it is usually reserved in line. The output of ASML (ASML) is not high, and the annual output is only 5-6 sets of equipment. Because ASML's equipment contains some American technologies, the United States suppressed Huawei and restricted the sale of the equipment to China.
In fact, when ASML (ASML) encountered a technical bottleneck, TSMC engineers made great contributions to it. Later, this engineer left TSMC with Zhang Rujing for other reasons and returned to the mainland to establish SMIC, which has gone through 2 years. Today, SMIC has become China's national team in the field of chip manufacturing. Mask aligner is, after all, the most accurate and technically complex equipment in the world. We believe that SMIC has been working hard to break through the technical bottleneck in mask aligner. "I will mount a long wind some day and break the heavy waves, and set my cloudy sail straight and bridge the deep, deep sea". SMIC will eventually make China people proud that day will come!
ASML company (full name: advanced semiconductor material photography), whose Chinese names are ASML (Chinese mainland) and esmore (Taiwan Province, China). Headquartered in Veldhoven, the Netherlands, it is one of the largest semiconductor equipment manufacturers in the world, providing leading comprehensive key equipment to global complex integrated circuit manufacturers. ASML shares are listed in Amsterdam and new york respectively.
Headquartered in Veldhoven, the Netherlands, it is the second high-tech company in Europe with per capita research funding. In 21, its global net sales revenue exceeded 4.5 billion euros. In 211, 222 sets of machines were sold, with a global net sales income of 5.651 billion euros and a net profit of 1.467 billion euros. By 211, the global market share was 75%.
China Branch Address: ASML Headquarters, 17th Floor, Building A, No.56 Songtao Road, Zhangjiang High-tech Park, Shanghai
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ASML provides mask aligner and related services for semiconductor manufacturers. TWINSCAN series is the most high-end lithography model with the highest precision, the highest production efficiency and the most extensive application in the world. At present, most semiconductor manufacturers in the world purchase TWINSCAN models from ASML, such as Intel, Samsung, Hynix, TSMC and SMIC.
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