Comments by "kazedcat" (@kazedcat) on "A Deep Dive Into Canon’s Nanoimprint Lithography" video.

 @brodriguez11000 It is already the printing industry way. The modern printing industry uses lithography technology not the imprint technology use in Gutenberg prints.
4
@Gameboygenius It's not economically unviable just economically not competitive. The issue is throughput but as the EUV tech becomes more and more expensive with hyper NA and quad patterning there should be a crossover point where nano imprint becomes competitive. NIL's yield issue is independent of resolution but EUV's yield becomes more problematic as you shrink the features.
4
@johndoh5182 You don't know how to count you shrink around 30% per generation. So 3nm then 2nm then 1.8nm then 1.2nm and 0.8nm assuming the rate of 2 years per full node shrink will continue then at 2033 we will be at 0.6nm. I am accounting a slow down so 0.8nm in 2033 is a good prediction.
2
Reliability is insignificant because of plan obsolescence. It does not matter if the tool last for 30 years when the shelf life of the technology is only 5 years. Yes you can fab 5nm process until 2033 that does not help you when the industry has already move on to 0.8nm.
1
@CRneu So reliability is not an issue with photolithography tools and they last a lot longer than what is necessary.
1
@paulmichaelfreedman8334 Laser is still photolithography unless you are using laser to directly burn spots in the paper to print an image.
1