Atomera Incorporated, a leading semiconductor materials and technology licensing company, has announced a strategic marketing agreement with a global chip fabrication technology leader. The collaboration aims to accelerate the adoption of Atomera’s Mears Silicon Technology (MST) for next-generation applications in AI, 5G, and other advanced electronics.
Through this partnership, the two companies will jointly optimize the integration of MST on the equipment provider’s state-of-the-art tools to address key challenges in the semiconductor industry. By pooling their resources, they intend to deliver more refined and scalable solutions, enabling quicker adoption and seamless integration into advanced node production. This initiative will offer customers access to MST, a quantum-engineered material that enhances semiconductor performance by boosting yields, reducing power consumption, and shrinking chip sizes. Accelerating the time-to-market for such solutions stands to benefit both manufacturers and the broader industry significantly.
“MST is recognized throughout the industry as a flexible, cost-effective solution for many different market segments,” said Scott Bibaud, President and CEO at Atomera. “Through this collaboration, Atomera can leverage the capital equipment company’s extensive salesforce and strong relationships with chipmakers to accelerate time to production. While Atomera’s material technology provides solutions to some of the most difficult challenges that leading edge customers are facing—it also drives the demand for our partner’s capital equipment tools, resulting in a real win-win-win situation.”
“The collaboration in materials and manufacturing equipment is critical to support the rapid semiconductor innovation in the AI era. The ability to leverage Atomera’s MST on the equipment of an industry-leading semiconductor vendor will allow for more efficient chips with minimal risk,” said Jim McGregor, Principal Analyst at TIRIAS Research. “While the collaboration will benefit everything from embedded/IOT to advanced server applications, the greatest benefit may be with the upcoming transition to Gate-All-Around (GAA) transistors, also referred to as RibbonFET and Nanosheet transistors.”
