Intel deploys ASML’s $400 million next-gen machine for flagship chip production

Intel has decided to use a high-end machine from ASML to manufacture some of ​its flagship Panther Lake laptop chips, ASML has announced, a move that will help the chipmaker learn to use the tool more effectively.

Following experiments that began in 2024, Intel has begun to ​use ASML’s next-generation high numerical aperture (High NA) extreme ultraviolet (EUV) ​machines, which print circuit patterns on to microchips, to ⁠help produce a portion of its Panther Lake processors, ASML ​said....