Cymer CEO Bob Akins refused to speculate on the extent of the current semiconductor downturn into 2012, because of the complications added by the Eurozone crisis and the US economic slowdown. However, the company should benefit from a period of technology investments by chipmakers in the second half of 2012, as EUV lithography is commercialized by ASML. Credit: Cymer. |
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