Intel Starts Shipping High-NA EUV Silicon (morethanmoore.substack.com)

Im rooting for Intel. I hate the current paradigm where all the best chips are made in one factory in Asia.

Amazing looking machine! $380 million a pop. Must surely be one of the most sophisticated machines humanity has ever built? A great achievement of European science and technology (ducks).

I believe Intel has a winner with the upcoming Crescent Island GPUs with up to 480GB of LPDDR5 memory. A lot of SMEs will need local AI with large open weights models (i.e. >1.5TB of VRAM), but they don't need a watercooled 8x Nvidia GB300 box. Besides, it's difficult to deploy and very expensive.

Crescent island is air cooled and likely fast enough for a group of users running something like GLM 5.2 or Kimi K3.

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> ASML moved to camera-style anamorphic optics that magnify the mask by different amounts along the two axes

Does this mean they do high-resolution designs in the center of the lens and low-resolution designs in the periphery?

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I wish that, but for high performance RISC-V micro-achitectures.

I was just reading about this in a tech magazine, couple of startups also trying other techniques of interest, one of them using helium atoms for the lithography. This uses pretty close to x-ray wavelengths of light. Amazing feats of engineering taking place in this crazy world of ours.

How come we don’t make chips with really small 3d printers?

Is it so hard to explain what the term "High-NA" is supposed to mean at the start of your article?

most importantly, is Ian Cutress' blog basically the new Anandtech? I miss that site...