Intel Leads Foundry Race With First High-NA EUV Logic Chip in Mass Production
techtimes.com · Wed Jul-15 15:11:27 published · Wed Jul-15 15:21:26 alerted · alerted 9m after publish · read at www.techtimes.com ↗ · product · mat 65
ASML announced its High-NA EUV scanner is being used in mass production of Intel 18A chips, years ahead of TSMC's 2029 deployment target, while reporting Q2 2026 net sales of €9.3 billion and raising full-year 2026 revenue guidance to €43-45 billion.
verdict FRESH, direction bullish -> buy ASML (product: ASML announced its High-NA EUV scanner is being used in mass production of Intel 18A chips, years ahead of TSMC's 2029 deployment target, while reporting Q2 2026 net sales of €9.3 billion and raising full-year 2026 revenue guidance to €43-45 billion.) [downgraded: qty 0 at current price] → close +1.99%
verdict FRESH, direction bearish -> sell TSM (product: ASML announced its High-NA EUV scanner is being used in mass production of Intel 18A chips, years ahead of TSMC's 2029 deployment target, while reporting Q2 2026 net sales of €9.3 billion and raising full-year 2026 revenue guidance to €43-45 billion.)
overnight drift: buy ASML at close, exit next close (product: ASML announced its High-NA EUV scanner is being used in mass production of Intel 18A chips, years ahead of TSMC's 2029 deployment target, while reporting Q2 2026 net sales of €9.3 billion and raising full-year 2026 revenue guidance to €43-45 billion.) [downgraded: qty 0 at current price]
The entry rationale conflated ASML's guidance beat and High-NA EUV adoption at Intel as a bearish signal for TSMC, but that's a stretch—ASML's strength is bullish for the whole EUV supply chain (including TSMC, its biggest customer), and the "years ahead" framing on Intel 18A is speculative PR, not a demonstrated TSMC share loss. The trade was briefly right (+2.02% unrealized) before reversing to a small loss, suggesting the bearish thesis had no real edge and the exit/reversal just reflects noise around a headline with no direct TSMC fundamental impact. Fix: add a filter requiring the news to name the traded ticker directly with a quantifiable competitive/financial impact (not just "implied by a competitor's announcement"), and tighten the verdict threshold so "FRESH" bearish calls on second-order/inferred impacts need corroborating price/volume confirmation before entry.
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