Russian startup claims it could produce silicon wafers in five minutes instead of two weeks, but trillion-dollar IMEC doesn't have to worry
THE SO WHAT
A multicathode electron source that cuts exposure time from weeks to minutes is a reminder that lithography is still open to step-change ideas—just not on a deployment timeline that matters to your 3–5 year capacity planning yet. Treat this as a long-horizon watch item, not a near-term hedge against conventional fab constraints.
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