Cryogenic trick gives Beijing’s fabs a leg-up

Chinese boffins have emerged from their smoke filled labs with a way to stop chips from going pear-shaped during manufacture by literally freezing the process mid-flow.

Twice as reliable

Troubled Chipzilla has officially put ASML’s next-generation high-numerical-aperture (NA) lithography machines to work and early results show they are already twice as reliable as previous models.