By Max A. Cherney <\/p>\n
SAN FRANCISCO, July 21 (Reuters) – The first components of an ASML next-generation chipmaking tool arrived \u200cat New York state’s Albany NanoTech Complex on \u200cTuesday, the governor’s office said. <\/p>\n
The NanoTech complex will use the tool to conduct \u200bresearch and development on future forms of chip design and manufacturing. <\/p>\n
The NanoTech facility is the only one of its kind in North America, according to NY Creates Director Dave Anderson, and \u200cis similar in \u2060scope and focus to Europe’s Imec, which operates in Belgium. <\/p>\n
“It really is transformative for the future \u2060of our scope of activities as well as U.S.-based R&D, and really, we’re kind of at the epicenter of that next \u200bgeneration of \u200btechnology development,” Anderson said. <\/p>\n
NY Creates \u200boversees the facility and \u200chas partnered with IBM, memory maker Micron and the Japanese chip equipment maker Tokyo Electron. <\/p>\n
ASML’s next-generation high numerical aperture (High NA) extreme ultraviolet (EUV) machine prints circuit patterns onto silicon wafers and costs roughly $400 million apiece. <\/p>\n
The tools are thought to be necessary \u200cto produce advanced processors in the \u200bfuture as chipmakers continue to shrink \u200batomic-sized features that make \u200bup chips. <\/p>\n
The components that arrived Tuesday form the \u200cbase of the mainframe of \u200bthe tool and \u200bwill receive further deliveries of the remaining components in the coming weeks as it is assembled at the \u200bfacility. Anderson expects \u200cto have the tool fully functional by the end \u200bof the year. <\/p>\n
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