Organisation
ZEISS
ZEISS Semiconductor Manufacturing Technology develops and manufactures the precision optical systems used in advanced semiconductor lithography.
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Why It Matters
ZEISS exclusively supplies the critical optics for ASML’s EUV lithography systems. That relationship makes precision optics part of the same strategic industrial chokepoint as EUV lithography itself.
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