Canon’s Advanced Chip Machines to Cost a Fraction of ASML’s Best
- Nanoimprint tech a low-cost alternative to leading-edge EUV
- Canon’s Mitarai wants succession plan to be ‘total surprise’
Canon Inc. plans to price its new chipmaking gear at a fraction of the cost of ASML Holding NV’s best lithography machines, seeking to make inroads in the cutting-edge equipment now playing a central role in the US-China tech rivalry.
The Tokyo-based company’s new nanoimprint technology would open up a way for smaller semiconductor makers to produce advanced chips, now almost wholly the domain of the sector’s biggest firms, Chief Executive Officer Fujio Mitarai said.