# GlobalFoundries buys four ASML EUV lithography machines for Fab 8

GlobalFoundries is buying four extreme ultraviolet lithography machines from ASML for its Fab 8 factory in Malta, New York, at a price of $200 million each. The machines are used for next-generation 7-nanometer chip manufacturing.

- Type: Contract
- Announced: 2018-03-21
- Where: Malta, New York, United States
- Value: $800.0M
- Status: announced
- Products: extreme ultraviolet lithography machines
- Sectors: [Semiconductors and Industrial Electronics](https://endata.com/sectors/semiconductors-electronics.md)

## Companies

- [GlobalFoundries](https://endata.com/companies/664.md) (customer)
- [ASML](https://endata.com/companies/18428.md) (supplier)

## Sources

- [timesunion.com](https://www.timesunion.com/business/article/Fab-8-s-chip-success-ripples-far-away-12770770.php), 2018-03-25: "GlobalFoundries is buying four of the machines, which print chip designs onto silicon wafers, from a Dutch company called ASML."

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