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The 2026 Lam Capital Venture Competition highlighted breakthrough semiconductor innovations with Lightfinder winning for its chip-scale optical sensing technology designed to enable real-time, in-tool metrology. This event showcased Lam Research's leadership in supporting startups that build the AI backbone for semiconductor manufacturing.

As semiconductor manufacturing grows more complex, sensor‑driven intelligence is emerging as a critical enabler of autonomous, data‑driven fabs.

Lam Research won two prestigious 2026 Edison Awards, for ALTUS® Halo and Akara®

In this edition of Semi 101, we explore the evolution of transistor architectures that have enabled logic scaling.