Samsung to get its first High-NA EUV machine by Q4 2024, ready to better compete against TSMC

Samsung is expected to have a new High-NA EUV lithography machine set up by the end of the year, as the South Korean giant wants to better compete with TSMC in the semiconductor manufacturing space.

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In a new report from the SEDaily, we're hearing that Samsung Electronics' Semiconductor (DS) Division will have a High-NA EUV lithography machine set to receive one of ASML's bleeding-edge TwinScan EXE:5000 High-NA EUV (Extreme Ultra Violet) lithography machines.

Intel was the first customer of ASML's new High-NA EUV machines for use in the United States, as well as TSMC in Taiwan, and now Samsung in South Korea.

Intel paid billions of dollars for the first waves of ASML's new High-NA EUV lithography machines, but it is believed that Samsung has purchased the 8th machine, while South Korean rival SK hynix plans to have a new EXE:5200 High-NA EUV machine to DRAM in the near future.

Samsung will have to wait until the first half of 2025 before it'll be able to put wafers into its new High-NA EUV machine.