ASML, Belgium’s Imec open laboratory to test newest chip-making tool

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – ASML, the biggest maker of equipment used to manufacture semiconductors, said on Monday it has opened a test laboratory for its High NA EUV lithography equipment, together with Belgium chip research firm Imec.

The laboratory in Veldhoven, Netherlands, years in the making, will give leading chipmakers and other equipment and materials supply companies an early chance to work with the 350 million euro ($380 million) tool, the first of its kind.

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(Reporting by Toby Sterling;Editing by Kirsten Donovan)