The head of the foundation has accompanied the future chip technology project at Zeiss from the start.
(Photo: Berthold Steinhilber / laif)
Stuttgart Semiconductor technology in particular is currently ensuring strong and robust growth at the Zeiss Group. “It is already clear that for the first time in the company’s 175-year history, sales will exceed seven billion euros,” said the Foundation’s head Dieter Kurz in an interview with the Handelsblatt.
The operating result (EBIT) of the foundation group for the business year ended in September will be “well over one billion euros” and thus reach a new record. Without Zeiss optics as a key component in the manufacture of iPhones and MacBooks, for example, the latest generation of chips in Apple devices would not exist.
In fact, together with its partners ASML and the laser specialist Trumpf, no other company in the world has mastered the new, so-called EUV technology. With the help of extreme ultraviolet light, the three partners have triggered a veritable technological leap in global chip production.
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