Rapidus becomes 1st Japan chipmaker to receive ASML's whale-sized EUV machine

Company joins ranks of TSMC, Samsung in drive to make 2-nm semiconductors

20241218N chipmaking equipment uploaded from plane

EUV lithography equipment is unloaded from a plane at New Chitose Airport in Hokkaido, near a chip fabrication facility being built by Rapidus. (Rapidus)

TSUYOSHI TAMEHIRO, Nikkei staff writer

TOKYO -- Rapidus has made history as the first Japanese semiconductor company to receive extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography equipment, in a step toward making Japan's most advanced chips.

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