Varied maskless e-beam systems in development for SoC makers

While it's by no means clear which of the competing technologies will actually deliver practical throughput, chipmakers in Europe and Japan are clearly hedging their bets on next-generation lithography by looking seriously at maskless e-beam systems for writing at least the critical layers of low-volume products.

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