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Photomasks, Photronics · Toppan · DNP

Brookfield (Connecticut), United States41.28°N 73.40°W
computed criticality11/100
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Merchant trio ≈36%; the rest captive at the foundries
2024
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Photomasks, the negatives that project the circuits, are mostly etched in-house by the large foundries; the remaining merchant market concentrates on Photronics, Toppan and DNP. Foundries without a captive workshop depend on them entirely, notably for EUV masks, whose writing exists only at a handful of players.

Actors
Photronics (Brookfield)
Toppan / Tekscend (Tokyo)
Dai Nippon Printing (Tokyo)
Feeds 1
TSMC, HsinchuSilicon
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