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The demand helped push Lasertec’s bookings to a record 112.9 billion yen ($1 billion) in the period, a number the company forecasts will climb another 42% this year.\nThe EUV process unlocks today’s smallest-scale designs, enabling more powerful and efficient microprocessors, referred to as logic chips in the industry. Yokohama-based Lasertec spent years developing equipment for it and has seen its share price rocket up more than 1,000% since early 2019 as EUV adoption by manufacturers like Samsung Electronics Co. and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. took off. It now forecasts a sixth straight year of record revenue and profit thanks to demand for advanced manufacturing from the likes of Apple Inc., whose latest iPhones and iPads are powered by EUV designs.\nDRAM is a type of computer memory used to perform operations that doesn’t hold data after the power is switched off. 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