{"city":"Santa Clara","name":"Multibeam","slug":"multibeam","facts":[{"date":"2026-03-23","type":"revenue_band","value":"unknown","source":"tamradar.com and technotrenz.com"},{"date":"2025-11-10","type":"customer","value":"SkyWater Technology","source":"EE Times"},{"date":"2025-07-01","type":"partnership","value":"Lam Capital","source":"tamradar.com and technotrenz.com"},{"date":"2025-07-01","type":"partnership","value":"Onto Innovation","source":"tamradar.com and technotrenz.com"},{"date":"2025-07-01","type":"funding_round","value":"Series B","source":"tamradar.com and technotrenz.com"},{"date":"2025-01-01","type":"partnership","value":"Synopsys","source":"technotrenz.com"}],"peers":[],"stage":null,"state":"California","aliases":["Multibeam Corporation"],"country":"United States","domains":[{"why":"Multibeam develops and sells a multi-column electron beam lithography platform for 300 millimetre wafers, including a production system shipped to SkyWater Technology.","list":null,"rank":null,"tier":"watchlist","layer":null,"total":51,"domain":"AI Core","scores":{"gate_ne":["firepower"],"leverage":6,"position":6,"progress":6,"firepower":4,"commercial":4,"deployment":4,"production":4,"technology":6},"edition":null,"segment":null}],"founded":null,"signals":[{"date":"2025-11-10","header":"SkyWater purchased a Multibeam e-beam tool for maskless direct-write chip fabrication.","outlet":"EE Times"}],"website":"multibeamcorp.com","category":"AI Infra · Semiconductor equipment, materials & critical inputs","categories":[{"name":"Lithography","domain":"AI Core","parent":"AI Infra · Semiconductor equipment, materials & critical inputs"}],"last_round":null,"updated_at":"2026-09-22T22:30:35.786+00:00","facts_total":9,"positioning":"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.","sub_category":"Lithography","signals_total":1,"url":"https://www.frontiertechintelligence.com/companies/multibeam","title":"Multibeam · ai core, Santa Clara, California, United States · scores, facts and signals · Frontier Tech Intelligence","description":"Multibeam develops and sells a multi-column electron beam lithography platform for 300 millimetre wafers, including a production system shipped to SkyWater Technology. AI Core watchlist (score 51) 1 signals and 9 facts with sources.","publisher":"Frontier Tech Intelligence (Future Frontiers, a trade name of Essential Cognition Inc.)","note":"Assessment by Frontier Tech Intelligence; facts and signals carry their sources."}