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ASML Ships 1000th KrF Lithography System; Milestone Confirms KrF Leadership in Productivity and System Extendibility

VELDHOVEN, the Netherlands, April 22, 2008 — ASML Holding NV (ASML) today announces that it has shipped its 1000th KrF lithography system. This milestone shipment to a South Korean customer highlights the proven performance of ASML’s KrF technology for affordable and highly productive lithography in semiconductor manufacturing. As proof of its commitment to lithography value-of-ownership, ASML has increased scanner throughput by approximately 10 percent every year to a level of 150 wafers per hour today (300mm diameter). Later this year, KrF systems will be able to process 165 wafers per hour, and this trend will continue in the years to come. In parallel, productivity enhancement packages (PEPs) are made available to retroactively enhance the productivity of the scanner installed base.

KrF-based lithography is used to process an average of 30 percent of the layers in 65-nanometer (nm) node computer chips. That number increases to around 40 percent as chipmakers move to the 45-nm node, according to ASML data.

World leader in productivity

The 1000th KrF system will be used for the production of memory chips where productivity and total cost of ownership of lithography systems play key roles in generating competitive products.

• One customer exposed a record of 3,603 wafers (300mm) in a single day on one of its ASML KrF systems.

• Four KrF scanners from ASML have processed more than 1 million wafers in a single year, setting new productivity records.

• A total of 82 semiconductor manufacturers worldwide are using ASML’s KrF lithography systems.

• The combined installed base of ASML KrF scanners (TWINSCANTM and PAS 5500) processes more than 1.1 million wafers per day.

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Maximum extendibility

ASML offers semiconductor manufacturers an extensive roadmap for further improvements to extend the success of KrF, including the introduction of the TWINSCAN XT:1000 with the ultimate dry numerical aperture of 0.93, and further overlay and throughput enhancements. With the industry’s highest numerical aperture for a KrF system, the TWINSCAN XT:1000 will offer a resolution of 80nm. This will enable manufacturers to process more mid-critical layers on KrF, delivering cost-per-layer savings of 30 percent or more over ArF production.

KrF systems are forecast by industry analysts to gain in importance over coming years. “Non-critical i-Line layers are gradually shifting into the KrF resolution domain and more and more implants, typically exposed with KrF, are needed to tune transistor performance. Being able to process many mid-critical semiconductor layers with KrF systems offers chip manufacturers the opportunity to control their cost and ultimately deliver more value to electronics producers and consumers. We expect worldwide KrF demand to rise over the coming years, growing easily by double-digit rates and reaching close to 300 scanner shipment levels by 2012,” said G. Dan Hutcheson, CEO of market research firm VLSI Research Inc.

“The success of the semiconductor industry is built on the principle of continuous cost reduction to make computing power and memory more affordable and easy to use, and this is especially relevant in today’s competitive environment. Our customers need to reduce the cost per layer, and ASML’s continuous KrF system improvements help them to achieve this goal,” said Bert Koek, general manager of 300-mm business at ASML.

About KrF and ArF

KrF and ArF refer to the types of laser light sources used to project electrical circuit patterns onto a silicon wafer. The light from a KrF, or krypton fluoride source has a wavelength of 248nm, which ASML manipulates to print circuit features below 100nm. ArF, or argon fluoride induced light sources have a 193nm wavelength, which is currently able to print features as small as 38nm — a nanometer is one millionth of a millimeter. Chip makers use both types of systems in the production process of a single chip. A typical chip consists of up to 30 or 40 layers. ArF and KrF systems are used to image the critical layers (smallest features) and mid-critical layers (slightly larger features, about 250nm down to 90nm), respectively. Remaining (non-critical, larger than about 250nm) features are imaged using an i-Line light source with a wavelength of 365nm.

About TWINSCAN productivity

Equipment depreciation amounts to about half the lithography layer cost for ArF and KrF, and over 70 percent for i-Line. By spreading these fixed costs over more wafers, higher productivity reduces individual wafer cost and improves return on investment. ASML’s TWINSCAN systems expose one wafer while already performing the necessary metrology measurements on the next. As a result, ASML’s latest TWINSCAN systems offer throughputs up to 165 300-mm wafers per hour (wph).

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About ASML

ASML is the world’s leading provider of lithography systems for the semiconductor industry, manufacturing complex machines that are critical to the production of integrated circuits or chips. Headquartered in Veldhoven, the Netherlands, ASML is traded on Euronext Amsterdam and NASDAQ under the symbol ASML. ASML has more than 6,500 employees, serving chip manufacturers in more than 60 locations in 16 countries.

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