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

[Admin]

Pat Gelsinger is back in the semiconductor game with xLight, a company that plans to make an EUV light source using a collider.

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[usertests]

Many have tried.

Would be great if the media ignored this guy's movements.

 

[Zaranthos]

"according to the Gelsinger's post." according to Gelsinger's post.

"we do cannot really guess" we cannot really guess.

Also the grammar, sentence structure, and comma placements make it look like it was typed up rather quickly before coffee kicked in or lack of sleep.

 

[kjfatl]

The equipment shown in the photo is huge. If the light source is similar in size, would it fit in existing fabs? If not, this would favor a company building new fabs from the ground up over one with a large existing base of fabs.

 

[Blastomonas]

For a retired man, he is very busy.

 

[pug_s]

Not sure if it is any different than what the Chinese are doing with euv using ssmb (Steady-State Microbunching Extreme Ultraviolet)

 

[Mr Majestyk]

Hard to see anyone making the particle accelerator cheaper than an AMSL EUV device. Sure higher power will allow lower costs per wafer, but it's only part of the cost equation. These particle accelerators for EUV and X-ray tend to be very large up to a few hundred metres. A promising new method of producing LPP is the ERL an energy recovery linear accelerator. Is this what xLight is trying to commercialise and reduce in size?

 

[bit_user]

Legendary Intel CTO and CEO Pat Gelsinger ...

Woah, let's not get ahead of ourselves!
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... it can address challenges in national security and biotech: from point defense and space debris control to ...

Oh, interesting. Yeah, zap those space debris!

 

[endocine]

Woah, let's not get ahead of ourselves!
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Oh, interesting. Yeah, zap those space debris!

LOL. I guess that company that hired him wanted to go bankrupt too

 

[JRStern]

Everyone needs a hobby.
Now if they can also shorten the wavelength to super-extreme-UV (aka soft x-rays), that might be more interesting.
Maybe this FEL is tunable?
I've never looked into this stuff in any detail, questions occur to me about the whole approach ...