Virtually every late generation consumer electronic device -- whether a PC or laptop, cellular phone, MP3 player, PDA, digital camera, Internet server, or modem -- contains a semiconductor manufactured using a Cymer light source. Today's advanced devices require smaller, faster chips with increased power and functionality, and Cymer provides the industry with the light sources critical to producing these chips.

The company supplies light sources to all three DUV lithography tool suppliers: ASML, Canon, & Nikon, which in turn supply their tools to chipmakers. More than 80 chipmakers and end-users use Cymer light sources in production. Cymer's worldwide installed base exceeds 3,300 systems, and the company supports chipmaker customers from approximately 50 locations worldwide, providing consumables and spare parts, service and training.

Cymer continually develops more advanced light sources and new features and upgrades to enhance chipmakers' productivity and reduce costs. New light sources include the XLR 500i, which is undergoing rapid industry adoption for argon fluoride immersion applications, and the XLR 600i, designed for double patterning applications which could experience initial adoption in late 2008 or early 2009. Cymer's non-systems revenue has been growing rapidly due to chipmakers' increasing utilization of lithography tools, and because of offerings such as the Gas Lifetime eXtension^TM control system which improves chipmaker productivity, and OnPulse^TM , which improves laser performance while reducing cost. The company's Extreme Ultraviolet (EUV) lithography source, scheduled to begin shipping in late 2008, is recognized as the leading industry source for lithography at the 22nm node. TCZ, the joint venture between Cymer and Carl Zeiss, is developing a production tool for the flat panel display industry.