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Customer Roadmap & Technology Requirements

Working with lead chipmakers and their process roadmaps to learn which process steps, materials, wafer or panel formats, throughput and cost a future tool must support, and turning that into technology requirements, a market view and a programme proposal.

Where this stage sits

This stage with its neighbours. Each row is a discipline active here, shaded by how mature its work is by the end of each stage.

Stage

^A01 Customer Roadmap & Technology RequirementsYou are here

^A02 Concept & System Architecture

^A03 Module & Subsystem Development

Business and customers milestones

RCCustomer roadmap commitment CAConcept and business case approval

Tool engineering milestones

RBTechnology requirements baseline AFTR1System architecture freeze SDRSubsystem critical design review

Product management and customer roadmap^A

Concept^A

Design^A

Systems engineering and architecture^A

Concept^A

Design

Process and applications^O

Concept

Design^A

Mechanical, vacuum and wafer handling^A

Design^A

Electrical, power, RF and controls hardware^A

Design

Optics, sources and sensing^A

Design^A

Equipment software and factory automation^D

Design

System integration and test^A

Design

Reliability, safety and compliance^A

Design

Customer programmes and evaluations^A

Concept

Design

Tool manufacturing and supply chain^A

Design

Quality, configuration and change control^A

Design

Export control and trade compliance^O

Concept

Design

Programme management^A

Concept

Design

KeyConceptRequirements and conceptDesignArchitecture and designPrototypePrototype toolAlphaAlpha toolBetaBeta toolProductionProduction toolFaded block: Held, the status shown before it still standsFreeze or sign-off pointMilestone for one item; the rest of the work carries onMilestone gateTRTechnical readiness review (TR): a gate that checks the technology is ready before the next commitment.You are here: Customer Roadmap & Technology RequirementsAI impactDisruption (red)Augmentation (blue)Opportunity (green)How AI is changing the workWhat the steps mean What the codes mean

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Stages

Customer Roadmap & Technology Requirements (this stage)^A
Concept & System Architecture^A
Module & Subsystem Development^A

Business and customers milestones

Tool engineering milestones

Technology requirements baseline (RB)
System architecture freeze (AF) (technical readiness review TR1)
Subsystem critical design review (SDR)

Disciplines

Product management and customer roadmap^A
- Customer Roadmap & Technology Requirements: maturity Concept, Requirements and concept. Customer roadmap assessed and the programme proposed to the timing of the lead customers.^A
- Concept & System Architecture: maturity Design, Architecture and design. Business case and pricing approved on the frozen architecture, and the customer roadmap kept current during design.^A
- Module & Subsystem Development: maturity Design, Architecture and design

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