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Manufacturing the most powerful chips, 15x faster
Inversion Semiconductor is developing the next-generation chip fabrication machine, to create the most powerful chips 15x faster. Our vision is to reshore advanced chip fabrication capabilities in the West. We're building a lithography machine. Lithography uses light to pattern circuit features on silicon. We're scaling transistors to their physical limits by shrinking particle accelerators 1000x, to create a high power light source. Using our light source we will double transistor density for a given numerical aperture and 3x throughput.
Inversion Semiconductor is developing a next-generation semiconductor lithography platform to achieve higher transistor density and faster chip fabrication by shrinking particle accelerators and enabling EUV at 13.5nm. They claim significant gains in density, throughput, and uniformity to push physical limits of transistor scaling.
The product is a semiconductor lithography platform that uses a miniature particle accelerator to generate high-power, tunable-wavelength light (capable of producing 13.5nm EUV) for lithography. It aims to achieve 1000x smaller accelerators, 100% higher transistor density at the same numerical aperture, 3x higher throughput per scanner, and 25% improvement in critical dimension uniformity, enabling high-aspect-ratio features and advanced compute paradigms.
Who it’s for: Semiconductor manufacturers and fabrication facilities seeking extreme scaling and throughput improvements in lithography technologies.
Founding team with research and industry backgrounds; claims of product development scale and upcoming customer engagement (reserve yours today)
Co-founder & CEO of Inversion Semiconductor (W25), developing next-gen semiconductor lithography machines. Masters in Mechanical Engineering from Imperial College London & Royal Academy of Engineering awardee. Previously automated chip design at Arm and led the Karman Space Programme to build record-breaking high power rockets.
Co-founder & CTO of Inversion Semiconductor (W25), developing next-gen lithography machines. Masters in Applied Physics from University College London, with a focus on applications of particle physics. Previously created novel ML models for stability optimization of tabletop particle accelerators at CERN, and developed particle accelerators for cancer treatment at Lumitron Technologies
Manufacturing the most powerful chips 15x faster
A YC-founded company aims to scale chip lithography by developing a tabletop high-power light source (STARLIGHT) using wakefield-accelerated electrons to surpass current EUV limits. They partner with Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (BELLA) to test laser stability and light generation, with goals to enable 1 kW soft X-ray light for silicon patterning and industrial lithography applications.
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