Overview
Cymer is part of ASML which is one of the world’s largest semiconductor capital equipment companies. Cymer light source(CLS) headquarter based in San Diego, California. is renowned for developing deep ultraviolet (DUV) lithography light sources to enable a critical step in IC manufacturing. Phone, tablet, phablet, health tracking wearable, and an increasing number of household appliances are all powered by integrated circuits, or microchips. Those chips are the end product of the silicon semiconductor lithography process
Acquired by ASML in 2013, we are an independently operated business that develops, manufactures and services deep-ultraviolet (DUV) light sources. Our product portfolio includes excimer lasers using argon fluoride (ArF) or krypton fluoride (KrF) gases to generate light in the deep-ultraviolet spectrum. These lasers generate the light that photolithography scanners use to image patterns on silicon wafers.
Cymer research and development has been enabling semiconductor manufacturing since the introduction of the first KrF light source in 1988. Since then, we have introduced significant advances in product performance through Solid State Power technology, 193nm lithography and dual chamber architecture, among many others. Our technology has been adopted worldwide as the source for semiconductor manufacturing