xLight, a venture-backed start-up building the world’s most powerful lasers, today announced Pat Gelsinger, legendary American technologist and semiconductor industry leader, is joining the board as Executive Chairman. Gelsinger will bring to the Board his decades of leadership and technical expertise driving innovation, most recently as CEO of Intel and formerly as CEO of VMware.

Scientists from Los Alamos National Laboratory and xLight are collaborating on a new research and development project that uses machine learning to increase the efficiency of semiconductor manufacturing. From left: Dongsung Kim, Los Alamos; Eric Brown, Los Alamos; Dinh Nguyen, xLight; Nicholas Kelez, CEO and CTO of xLight; Steve Russell, Los Alamos; Alex Scheinker, Los Alamos.

xLight today announced a new partnership with the Cornell Laboratory for Accelerator-based ScienceS and Education (CLASSE) at Cornell University. The newly announced partnership will enable research and development collaboration between the two organizations with an emphasis on technologies that CLASSE pioneered during the development of the Cornell BNL ERL Test Accelerator (CBETA).

xLight today celebrated the company’s Chief Scientist, Dr. Gennady Stupakov, who was selected as one of two winners of the 2024 IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society’s Particle Accelerator Science and Technology Award (PAST Award). The IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society bestows the Particle Accelerator Science and Technology Award to individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the development of particle accelerator science and technology.

xLight today announced it has signed a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL). This CRADA kicks off an anticipated, long-term collaboration between the company and Fermilab, which will develop critical superconducting Radio Frequency components key to reshoring semiconductor manufacturing in the United States. The work under the CRADA signed today will focus on superconducting radio frequency cavity and cryomodule development and testing.