Nexstrom

Advanced-node chipmaking is running into the physical limits of silicon, and foundries need a manufacturable path to 2D semiconductor channels for lower-power compute. Nexstrom builds the deposition hardware, process chemistry, and wafer-handling stack that grows single-crystal transition-metal dichalcogenides directly on industry-standard 300 mm wafers inside an existing fab workflow.

That wafer-scale, process-compatible approach separates Nexstrom from lab-scale 2D growth methods, which yield only small samples, and from deposition equipment vendors whose tools require foundries to rework their processes. Its platform positions the company as a supplier to the chipmakers developing 2D materials in-house rather than a competitor to them.