Intel Starts Shipping High-NA EUV Silicon

I believe Intel has a winner with the upcoming Crescent Island GPUs with up to 480GB of LPDDR5 memory. A lot of SMEs will need local AI with large open weights models (i.e. >1.5TB of VRAM), but they don't need a watercooled 8x Nvidia GB300 box. Besides, it's difficult to deploy and very expensive.

Crescent island is air cooled and likely fast enough for a group of users running something like GLM 5.2 or Kimi K3.

most importantly, is Ian Cutress' blog basically the new Anandtech? I miss that site...

Amazing looking machine! $380 million a pop. Must surely be one of the most sophisticated machines humanity has ever built? A great achievement of European science and technology (ducks).

I was just reading about this in a tech magazine, couple of startups also trying other techniques of interest, one of them using helium atoms for the lithography. This uses pretty close to x-ray wavelengths of light. Amazing feats of engineering taking place in this crazy world of ours.

> ASML moved to camera-style anamorphic optics that magnify the mask by different amounts along the two axes

Does this mean they do high-resolution designs in the center of the lens and low-resolution designs in the periphery?

Is it so hard to explain what the term "High-NA" is supposed to mean at the start of your article?

How come we don’t make chips with really small 3d printers?

Im rooting for Intel. I hate the current paradigm where all the best chips are made in one factory in Asia.

I wish that, but for high performance RISC-V micro-achitectures.

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