xLight Announces Pat Gelsinger to Join Board as Executive Chairman
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.
“We’re entering the most transformative moment in computing infrastructure since the birth of the Internet" said Pat Gelsinger, Executive Chairman of the Board. “I'm looking forward to working with xLight to drive the next generation of semiconductor manufacturing. Free electron lasers are the future of lithography and xLight is the clear leader in particle accelerator technologies."
“Pat believes, like we do, that EUV lithography is the key to unlocking the next generation of compute, and when he learned about xLight’s work to build the world’s most powerful lasers and revolutionize EUV lithography, it was an instant match,” said Nicholas Kelez, xLight CEO. “Pat’s technical understanding and knowledge of the semiconductor industry is exceptional, and he immediately understood how valuable xLight’s system will be to the future of American semiconductor manufacturing. We are excited to have him join our board and look forward to our work together.”
xLight is continuing to execute against its business goals, as evidenced by the ongoing partnerships with the Cornell Laboratory for Accelerator-based ScienceS and Education (CLASSE), the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), and Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, three globally recognized, leading research facilities.
xLight’s work with CLASSE focuses primarily on research and development, with the ultimate goal of commercializing technologies developed by Cornell’s BNL ERL Test Accelerator (CBETA). The joint venture with LANL, funded by New Mexico’s TRGR Technology Readiness Initiative, is focused on the application of modern machine learning techniques to enable the automation of a large-scale accelerator. Large-scale accelerators such as those under cooperative development at LANL are an integral component of xLight’s technical roadmap to building the ultimate light source for semiconductor manufacturing. The company’s collaboration with Fermilab is focused on superconducting radio frequency cavity and cryomodule development and testing – two particle accelerator technologies that the lab mastered over decades.
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About xLight
xLight was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA. The company’s mission is to commercialize particle accelerator driven Free Electron Lasers (FEL) for critical US economic and national security applications. xLight is led by a team of light source pioneers, lithographers, and particle accelerator builders, and the company’s work is driven by the belief that the United States must regain and sustain leadership in semiconductor manufacturing. Learn more at www.xlight.com
