Multibeam develops and sells a multi-column electron beam lithography platform for 300 millimetre wafers, including a production system shipped to SkyWater Technology.
Multibeam is the other new entrant in lithography alongside Lace, attacking the same incumbent from a different axis. Where Lace replaces photons with helium atoms and targets a pilot tool around 2029, Multibeam pursues multi-column electron beam lithography for 300 millimetre wafers and advanced packaging, and it is materially further along the commercial readiness curve: it has already shipped its first production system to SkyWater Technology and holds partnerships with Synopsys. It raised a USD 31 million Series B in July 2025 led by Onto Innovation and Lam Capital, a notable investor pairing because both are semiconductor equipment incumbents rather than generalist funds, implying a supply-chain or integration rationale. It sits in a small cohort of lithography alternatives that also includes SCIL Nanoimprint Solutions, with IMS Nanofabrication (acquired by Intel) as the reference point. Technology 3 and position 3 because e-beam is a mature approach whose constraint has always been throughput rather than resolution, and nothing found addresses whether Multibeam has solved that. Registry linkage: SkyWater is itself being acquired by IonQ, so this customer relationship may change hands. Revisit trigger: a second production system shipment, a named foundry customer beyond SkyWater, or a throughput figure.
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Multibeam develops and sells a multi-column electron beam lithography platform for 300 millimetre wafers, including a production system shipped to SkyWater Technology. Multibeam is the other new entrant in lithography alongside Lace, attacking the same incumbent from a different axis. Where Lace replaces photons with helium atoms and targets a pilot tool around 2029, Multibeam pursues multi-column electron beam lithography for 300 millimetre wafers and advanced packaging, and it is materially further along the commercial readiness curve: it has already shipped i
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Multibeam is based in Santa Clara, California, United States.
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