"The semiconductor industry cannot afford 4-week tapeout cycles in an AI-accelerated century."
When I spent years inside advanced cleanrooms and EDA architecture teams, the dirty secret of leading-edge semiconductor scaling became obvious: we weren't limited by our ability to design microchips—we were limited by the mathematics of simulating light.
At extreme ultraviolet wavelengths, simulating how 13.5nm photons interact with a multi-layer reflective photomask required tens of millions of dollars in electricity, thousands of x86 servers, and weeks of waiting per tapeout iteration. It was an unsustainable brute-force paradigm.
With the rise of physics-informed Fourier Neural Operators, we realized that Maxwell's equations could be solved continuously in function space rather than on discrete spatial lattices. LithoCore AI was born to bring that breakthrough into production foundries worldwide.
Executive Leadership Team
World-class scientists and engineers with pedigree from Stanford, MIT, and leading nanofabrication foundries.
Julian Vance
Julian has spent over 14 years at the forefront of semiconductor physical verification, inverse lithography technology, and high-performance computing. Prior to founding LithoCore AI, he served as Principal Computational Lithography Architect at a tier-1 Silicon Valley semiconductor foundry, leading the integration of accelerated wave solvers for sub-5nm tapeouts.
Dr. Maya Lin
Dr. Lin is an internationally recognized expert in spectral neural operators for non-linear partial differential equations. She completed her postdoctoral research at MIT focusing on computational electromagnetics and boundary-integral operator approximations, publishing foundational papers cited over 2,400 times.
Dr. Eric Van Der Berg
Dr. Van Der Berg previously served as Senior Director of Metrology and Scanner Calibration at a leading European semiconductor cleanroom consortium in Eindhoven. He has calibrated over 80 commercial immersion and extreme ultraviolet lithography systems.
Sarah Jenkins
Sarah brings over a decade of commercial EDA product leadership, having orchestrated multi-million dollar synthesis licenses across fabless chip design houses in North America and Asia-Pacific.