JSR Agrees to Acquire EUV Pioneer Inpria Corporation

Missy Bindseil for JSR declared today that the company has signed an agreement for the acquisition of Corvallis, OR based Inpria Corporation, the world’s leading innovator of metal oxide photoresist design, development and manufacturing for extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography, for USD $514 million. EUV technology is already in use in commercial production in the most advanced lithography processes used in semiconductor manufacturing and, as the industry moves to smaller critical dimensions in chip manufacturing, its use is expected to increase substantially. In 2017 and 2020, JSR participated in Inpria’s funding rounds which resulted in JSR owning 21 percent of…