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ASML says EUV on track for 2013
Dylan McGrath
10/12/2011 3:57 AM EDT
Still expecting record sales year
ASML reported sales for the quarter of 1.46 billion euro (about $1.99 billion), down about 5 percent from the second quarter. The company reported a net income for the quarter of 355 million euro (about $485 million), down 18 percent compared to the second quarter.
ASML said it sold 46 new systems in the third quarter, down from 58 systems in the second quarter. The company said it book 23 system orders worth 514 million euro (about $701 million) during the quarter, excluding EUV systems. In the second quarter, ASML reported booking 34 non-EUV system orders worth 840 million euro (about $1.15 billion).
Despite the current turbo macro-economic environment, ASML continues to expect 2011 to be a record year for sales. The company continues to expect that total sales for the year will be more than 5.5 billion euro (about $7.5 billion). ASML said it expects fourth quarter bookings to be better than they were in the third quarter.
For the fourth quarter, ASML said it expects sales to be above 1.1 billion euro (about $1.5 billion), including one second-generation EUV system worth about 40 million euro (about $55 million) with zero profit margin. ASML maintains it makes no profit on the sale of pre-production EUV tools.
"It is too early to understand how overall demand for semiconductors will contribute to our business in 2012, but we believe that a sustained need for leading edge systems capable of new nodes will likely result in increased Q4 2011 bookings, compared with Q3,” Meurice said.
ASML reported sales for the quarter of 1.46 billion euro (about $1.99 billion), down about 5 percent from the second quarter. The company reported a net income for the quarter of 355 million euro (about $485 million), down 18 percent compared to the second quarter.
ASML said it sold 46 new systems in the third quarter, down from 58 systems in the second quarter. The company said it book 23 system orders worth 514 million euro (about $701 million) during the quarter, excluding EUV systems. In the second quarter, ASML reported booking 34 non-EUV system orders worth 840 million euro (about $1.15 billion).
Despite the current turbo macro-economic environment, ASML continues to expect 2011 to be a record year for sales. The company continues to expect that total sales for the year will be more than 5.5 billion euro (about $7.5 billion). ASML said it expects fourth quarter bookings to be better than they were in the third quarter.
For the fourth quarter, ASML said it expects sales to be above 1.1 billion euro (about $1.5 billion), including one second-generation EUV system worth about 40 million euro (about $55 million) with zero profit margin. ASML maintains it makes no profit on the sale of pre-production EUV tools.
"It is too early to understand how overall demand for semiconductors will contribute to our business in 2012, but we believe that a sustained need for leading edge systems capable of new nodes will likely result in increased Q4 2011 bookings, compared with Q3,” Meurice said.
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resistion
10/12/2011 4:19 AM EDT
But these EUV scanners can't even do 15 nm!
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any1
10/12/2011 9:02 AM EDT
I just don't see it happening anytime soon for EUV litho. There are so many issues that still need to be addressed. I see only more delays ahead. A 2015 insertion point for "real manufacturing" seems optimistic to me.
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pixies
10/12/2011 6:01 PM EDT
But if it does not happen soon, it will never happen for volume production. The window is closing quickly.
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resistion
10/12/2011 8:15 PM EDT
It missed 22 nm logic/foundry, that's already too late.
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elctrnx_lyf
10/12/2011 1:34 PM EDT
I just wonder how the asmc sales are so positive even while there is a dip in the sales of semiconductor in general.
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unknown multiplier
10/14/2011 11:18 AM EDT
Mainstream lithography was never determined by resolution or even cost, but by throughput. So e-beam got replaced by optical, even as optical was much more complex.
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resistion
11/6/2011 9:40 AM EST
ASML immersion backlog is currently about 50% of the installed base, the industry bet is on immersion extension by multiple patterning, starting 2012-3.
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vincelodato
9/11/2012 6:45 PM EDT
years ago I worked for PE which became svgl now it is ASML...I remember microscan twinscan etc etc....but most of all our little company BBE was ahead of ASML and it is now 20 years....Charlie K of PE, Frank Reidel of PE both dead now...and I am the only one left...we were and are ahead of our times.....BBE, xray stepper just google....
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