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Source: afp – They call it \u00abthe shrink\u00bb — it’s the challenge of how to pack more circuits onto the microchips which power everything from our phones to our computers, even our coffee machines.<\/span><\/p>\n

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And pushing the boundaries of this technology is Dutch company ASML, which since its foundation in 1984 has quietly become a world leader in the semiconductor business.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u00abThere is more power in your smartphone today than was used to put man on the moon,\u00bb says ASML’s chief operating officer Frederic Schneider-Maunoury, animatedly waving his mobile phone in the air.<\/p>\n

When you open an app on your phone, the chain allowing you to book a flight, message a friend or check out who’s hot in your neighbourhood arcs all the way back most likely to ASML.<\/p>\n

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Headquartered in Veldhoven, near the Belgian border, it builds sophisticated lithography machines to enable the world’s top chip makers — Intel, Samsung and Apple supplier Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSMC) — to produce the smallest, most powerful, most cost-effective microprocessors on the planet.<\/p>\n

Its newest machines use highly-focused extreme ultra-violet (EUV) light to imprint designs on the chips, and are at the cutting-edge of what is scientifically and technologically possible in the art of miniaturisation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

– ‘Phones are not for calling’ –<\/p>\n

Last year after two decades of research and development and billions of euros, ASML shipped its first 12 EUV machines to clients. Each costs about 120 million euros ($145 million).<\/p>\n

This year it has projected sales of 20 machines — by 2020, it hopes to be selling 35 to 40 a year.<\/p>\n

It is ironic that these machines, which produce chips of infinitesimally small dimensions, are the size of a bus. Three Boeing 747 aircraft are needed to transport one machine to a client.<\/p>\n

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Long seen as a bellwether of the tech industry, the company is listed on both the Amsterdam bourse, the AEX, and the Nasdaq in New York.<\/p>\n

Last year it announced profits had almost doubled to 2.12 billion euros on record sales of 9.05 billion euros.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Only two other companies in the world — the Japanese giants Nikon and Canon — make lithography machines and neither has yet developed EUV technology.<\/p>\n

\u00abOur problem is not just to find the technologies, we than have to put it into the products in an economical way,\u00bb Schneider-Maunoury told AFP, in his office overlooking ASML’s sprawling site.<\/p>\n

\u00abWhy buy a new phone? It’s not to make calls on. I buy a new phone precisely because it allows me to do things that the previous phone didn’t,\u00bb he said.<\/p>\n

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But this is a competitive market, and if the new phone \u00abis going to cost me 10 times more, than I’m not going to buy it\u00bb.<\/p>\n

A former vice-president at French rail giant Alstom, he joined ASML in 2010 and has become increasingly passionate about its innovative technology.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

– Accurate ‘to within an atom’ –<\/p>\n

The EUV system works by projecting the light through a blueprint, ASML explains.<\/p>\n

Using a series of complex optics, made by German company Zeiss, \u00abthe pattern is reduced and focused onto a thin slice of silicon coated with a light-sensitive chemical\u00bb.<\/p>\n

\u00abThe light interacts with the chemical effectively printing the pattern onto the silicon or wafer. When the unwanted silicon is etched away a three-dimensional structure is created.\u00bb This is repeated dozens of times, layer upon layer, leaving a grid of hundreds of chips on one silicon wafer.<\/p>\n

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The light has to be focused in a vacuum to stop it being absorbed by air — a difficult technological feat — and the parameters are so small that the machine is working \u00abto within the size of an atom\u00bb.<\/p>\n

The tiniest speck of dust infiltrating the machine could ruin the design, leaving blank spaces on the chips.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

ASML now employs about 20,000 people, mostly engineers and most in Veldhoven, but it also has sites in Asia and the United States.<\/p>\n

And as it grows it is hiring. Some 3,000 new posts were added last year, with a similar number of new jobs expected this year.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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