{"id":226443,"date":"2025-12-03T21:23:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T03:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/u-s-government-awards-gelsinger-backed-euv-developer-xlight-with-150-million-in-federal-incentives"},"modified":"2025-12-03T21:23:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T03:23:10","slug":"u-s-government-awards-gelsinger-backed-euv-developer-xlight-with-150-million-in-federal-incentives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/u-s-government-awards-gelsinger-backed-euv-developer-xlight-with-150-million-in-federal-incentives","title":{"rendered":"U.S government awards Gelsinger-backed EUV developer xLight with $150 million in federal incentives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/u-s-government-awards-gelsinger-backed-euv-developer-xlight-with-150-million-in-federal-incentives.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>XLight, a U.S.-based startup developing an EUV light source based on a particle accelerator, on Tuesday <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.xlight.com\/company-news\/xlight-signs-150-million-letter-of-intent-with-the-us-department-of-commerce\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.xlight.com\/company-news\/xlight-signs-150-million-letter-of-intent-with-the-us-department-of-commerce\" target=\"_blank\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" data-hl-processed=\"none\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"inline-link\" data-hawk-tracked=\"hawklinks\" data-mrf-link=\"https:\/\/www.xlight.com\/company-news\/xlight-signs-150-million-letter-of-intent-with-the-us-department-of-commerce\" cmp-ltrk=\"inline-link\" cmp-ltrk-idx=\"0\" mrfobservableid=\"95a518b6-3c50-4cbc-b6d8-c5d3aee0e2b7\">signed<\/a> a Letter of Intent (LOI) with the U.S. Department of Commerce for $150 million in proposed federal incentives under the CHIPS and Science Act. xLight came out of the blue earlier this year when it hired Pat Gelsinger, former chief executive of Intel, as executive chairman. The money, if awarded, will be used to bring xLight\u2019s free-electron laser (FEL) based light source closer to reality once it is built in Albany and its viability is proven in practice.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith the support from the [Department of] Commerce, our investors, and development partners, xLight is building its first free-electron laser system at the Albany Nanotech Complex, where the world\u2019s best lithography capabilities will enable the research and development that will define the future of chip manufacturing,\u201d said Nicholas Kelez, CEO and CTO of xLight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>XLight, a U.S.-based startup developing an EUV light source based on a particle accelerator, on Tuesday signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) with the U.S. Department of Commerce for $150 million in proposed federal incentives under the CHIPS and Science Act. xLight came out of the blue earlier this year when it hired Pat Gelsinger, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1490,4,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-government","category-nanotechnology","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226443\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}