After more than a decade of collaboration with Dutch partners, Hitachi High-Tech has established a presence in Eindhoven. The move is aimed at enabling faster iteration cycles and tighter integration as semiconductor metrology grows more complex.
Hitachi High-Tech Europe has quietly set up shop at the High Tech Campus in Eindhoven to accelerate what it calls “high-resolution engineering.” The move reflects the difficulties associated with joint industrial development at a distance, Junichi Tanaka, senior chief strategist at the Japanese firm, explained at the TNO Semicon Day on 15 April.
Hitachi High-Tech offers a wide range of analytical and industrial equipment, including electron microscopes and semiconductor inspection tools. The measurement specialist has been building ties with the Dutch ecosystem for over a decade. Its collaboration started in 2013 with Eindhoven University of Technology on electron optics research and later expanded to TNO, Imec and industry parties. Over time, these interactions evolved from academic exchanges into prototype development and joint engineering efforts, exposing the limits of remote collaboration between Japanese and European partners.
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