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Lasertec

Sole supplier of EUV mask/blank actinic inspection

Lasertec is effectively the only company in the world making actinic (13.5nm) EUV photomask and mask-blank inspection systems (ACTIS / actinic patterned mask inspection), a de facto monopoly essential to every EUV node at TSMC, Samsung, Intel, and Rapidus. Without Lasertec's tools, defect-free EUV masks cannot be economically qualified. It is one of the most concentrated single points of failure in the entire leading-edge supply chain.

EUV actinic mask inspection

~100% (monopoly)

Customers

TSMC, Samsung, Intel, Rapidus

How it fits the stack

Lasertec with what it depends on (above) and what it feeds (below). The figure renders as a crawlable diagram and upgrades to an interactive 3D graph as it scrolls into view.

suppliessuppliesdepends onsuppliesLasertecToolsEUV Lithography(13.5nm)chokepointSamsung FoundryToppan / DNPPhotomasksTSMC (TaiwanSemiconductorManufacturing Company)chokepoint
LasertecFeeds ↓

Lasertec in the AI stack. Lasertec with its immediate upstream dependencies (top) and downstream dependents (bottom) in the AI value chain. Hover a node in 3D, or read the full relationships below.

Graph data (text) — 5 entities, 4 relationships
  • EUV Lithography (13.5nm)suppliesLasertec
  • Samsung FoundrysuppliesLasertec
  • Toppan / DNP Photomasksdepends onLasertec
  • TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company)suppliesLasertec