Improves on-wafer critical dimension uniformity, enabling higher productivity San Diego, California, December 1, 2014 - Cymer, LLC, an ASML company, the world's leading supplier of light sources used by chipmakers to pattern advanced semiconductor chips, today announced its new argon fluoride immersion light source, the XLR 700ix. Built on the industry leading XLR platform, the 700ix provides improvements in bandwidth, wavelength and energy stability, enabling higher scanner throughput and process stability for advanced 14nm chip manufacturing and beyond.