{"id":948895,"date":"2025-07-23T07:54:05","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T02:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=948895"},"modified":"2025-07-23T08:08:44","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T02:38:44","slug":"us-startup-xlight-raises-40-million-in-race-against-china-for-key-chipmaking-laser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/07\/23\/us-startup-xlight-raises-40-million-in-race-against-china-for-key-chipmaking-laser\/","title":{"rendered":"US startup xLight raises $40 million in race against China for key chipmaking laser"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Silicon Valley startup xLight has raised $40 million, aiming to build the first prototype of a new class of laser that could shake up the global chip industry and reclaim U.S. leadership in a field that China is aggressively investing in. <\/p>\n<p>XLight&#8217;s laser &#8211; based on the same technologies as massive particle accelerators used by U.S. national labs in cutting-edge physics research &#8211; will sit at the heart of what are known as extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography machines. EUV machines are the tools primarily responsible for the creation of smaller, faster chips.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Silicon Valley startup xLight has raised $40 million, aiming to build the first prototype of a new class of laser that could shake up the global chip industry and reclaim U.S. leadership in a field that China is aggressively investing in. XLight&#8217;s laser &#8211; based on the same technologies as massive particle accelerators used by U.S. national labs in cutting-edge physics research &#8211; will sit at the heart of what are known as extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography machines. EUV machines are the tools primarily responsible for the creation of smaller, faster chips.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-948895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=948895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948895\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=948895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=948895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=948895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}