> The collaboration between Mistral AI and ASML aims to generate clear benefits for ASML customers through innovative products and solutions enabled by AI

I don’t know much about lithography which is why I ask - what is an AI supposed to do in a lithography machine? Does anyone know?

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theturtlemoves 12 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> I don’t know much about lithography which is why I ask - what is an AI supposed to do in a lithography machine? Does anyone know?

Not in the lithography machines probably, but more likely in surrounding equipment and in the business itself.

Some ideas:

* Augment metrology division with a trained model for analysis of the (enormous!) amounts of wafer measurement data

* An extra layer of error detection and possibly correction at all sorts of levels, from wafer alignment on the wafer stage to pre analysis of recipes that are about to be run.

* Something that cleverly digs through the pile of log messages and reports on impending issues that haven't manifested themselves yet in terms of yield loss

* Ideally, deep code analysis to find performance, Cpu or memory issues in the ASML codebase that a human hasn't detected yet because the code base is just too huge. (An engineer usually gets only access to a small part of the codebase, and none - not even read access - to other parts.)

* Dig through the ticketing system (another place where you could easily drown in information overload) to find relationships between tickets, mark potential duplicates and notify of bugs instructing a critical path.

* And of course, replace the first line personnel in the outsourced IT support departments. PC not working? Talk to the LLM first (instead of calling someone), and it'll triage and dispatch

This is all assuming happy flow of course

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qrios 6 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Maybe it has to do with the "place and route" step in the synthesis of a chip design. Right now it is based mainly on random numbers and shuffling logic and wires. ML(not LLM) could help here in the same way as AlphaFold is using it for proteins.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Place_and_route

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spiderfarmer 6 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I read it as:

We at ASML have a lot of cash. We think investing in Mistral will give us a ROI and investing in the EU right now is safer than the hellscape in the US. Politicians will like it as well. We'll let the PR firm worry about synergy.

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on_the_train 6 days ago | parent [-]

Asml does not have a lot of cash though. Not at all.

	▲	Cthulhu_ 6 days ago \| parent [-]
		Neither did Musk but he bought Twitter and the US government. You don't need cash, you need value, and ASML has a value (market cap) of over $300 billion. As the Dutch say, "money must roll"; having cash (or value) but not doing anything with it means you're losing money.

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teekert 6 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It’S a ClEaR bEnEfIt!

(… and if you can’t see the emperor’s clothes you are not pure of heart!)

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Perz1val 6 days ago | parent | prev [-]

"Jarvis, add more cores"