NEW DELHI: Smartphone makers are doing everything possible to make devices more powerful so that they can deliver a seamless performance. Companies like TSMC and Samsung are now using 7nm and 8nm process respectively which enable more transistors to be packed into a smaller area.
This technology helps chipset manufacturers such as Qualcomm, Huawei, Apple and Samsung to create chipsets which are more powerful when compared to the predecessor. Apart from this, the technology also enable smartphone makers to launch slimmer handsets.
Now an online report by Bloomberg reveals that there is a not-so-famous Japanese company which plays a major role in this process. The company named Lasertec Corp, allows chipset manufacturers to increase the number of transistors in every new generation of chips.

This is the only company in the world who manufacture testing equipments for a manufacturing process called extreme ultraviolet lithography (EUV) that only TSMC and Samsung will be using later this year. This technology uses plasma as a source of light to draw lines smaller than 7nm, which is the screen size of Apple's A12 Bionic chip which powered the iPhone XS and iPhone XR.

As per the report, Lasertec manufactures a machine which tests the glass masks which send the plasma beams sent in order to trace the circuitry pattern. This gave the company monopoly in this segment. Bloomberg reports that the Japanese company has already received orders for 4 billion yen ($36 million) machines that test EUV blanks.

The company is now expecting more orders once both TSMC and Samsung increases the mass production of chips which uses 7nm EUV process. The report said, "We spent six years developing this equipment. At this point it’s become an industry standard and it would be very difficult for somebody else to enter the space."

"Samsung has said that the move lets it use chip area 40 percent more efficiently, improves performance by 20 percent and halves power consumption," added the report.

Source: gadgetsnow.com