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Tom’s Hardware
Tom’s Hardware
Technology
Anton Shilov

Pat Gelsinger turns to particle accelerators for a new way to make chips, joins xLight

XLight.

Legendary Intel CTO and CEO Pat Gelsinger is now serving as executive chairman at xLight, a startup developing a free electron laser (FEL) technology as a light source for extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography systems.

Using a particle accelerator to generate light for litho machines has been discussed previously, but xLight claims it can produce such a source by 2028 — while maintaining compatibility with existing tools.

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