Why it matters, product
Lithography tools
Scanners that print circuit patterns onto wafers; extreme ultraviolet tools at the leading edge come from one supplier.
- Depends on
- 0
- Depended on by
- 1
- Metrics
- 0
Neighbourhood: what depends on it (left), what it depends on (right)
- Candidate
- Hypothesized
- Mechanism supported
- Causally supported
- Established relation
Systems that would feel a shortage
Downstream: what depends on it
Semiconductor fabrication plant requires input Lithography tools2 evidenceEstablished relation
Semiconductor fabrication plant depends on Lithography tools.
Mechanism
Patterning at leading-edge nodes uses extreme ultraviolet scanners from a single supplier; fab capacity is bounded by tool deliveries.
Evidence
- documentASML, EUV lithography systemsasml.comSole supplier of EUV scanners used at leading-edge nodes.checked 2026-09-07
- documentNIST, CHIPS for Americanist.govFab construction, supply chain and workforce programme.checked 2026-09-07
- Status
- established_identity_or_engineering_relation
- Reviewer confidence
- 0.98
- Stated strength
- 1.00
- Lag
- not stated
- Version
- curated_seed_v1
- Reviewed
- 2026-09-07
Confidence and strength are curated judgements recorded with the edge, not measured quantities.
Inputs it cannot do without
Upstream: what it depends on
No stored inputs for this entity.
Measured, from the catalog
Linked metrics
No catalog metric is linked to this entity yet.
Named on the edges that depend on it
Substitutes
No substitute is named for this entity on any stored edge.
Derived from curated edges
Bottleneck centrality
- Score
- 4.75
- Downstream entities
- 6
- Direct dependents
- 1
Sum over every entity downstream (within six hops) of the strongest path weight to it, where each edge weighs its stated strength divided by one plus its named substitutes. A graph statistic over curated edges, not an observation. Computed 2026-09-07 22:42 UTC.
Curated paths this entity is part of
Chains
Names that resolve to this node
Aliases
- EUV lithography
- EUV scanner
- lithography equipment
- photolithography equipment
slug lithography-tools, updated 2026-09-07 22:42 UTC