Space Age Silicon: The Unlikely Frontier of Semiconductor Manufacturing Besxar, a startup founded by Ashley Pilipiszyn, a former OpenAI staffer, is revolutionizing semiconductor manufacturing by leveraging the physics of space.
Founded to address the limitations of traditional clean rooms, where even microscopic dust and contaminants can ruin a chip during production, Besxar's solution is to take advantage of the vacuum of space.
The company has raised almost $14 million in funding from investors such as Dauntless Ventures and Overture VC, suggesting that they are taking this idea seriously.