Singapore’s Nexstrom wants to bring 2D semiconductors to chip fabs
- ID
- 27208
- Status
- summarized
- Published
- 22 Sep 2026, 9:20 PM
- Fetched
- 22 Sep 2026, 9:23 PM
- Provider
- TechCrunch
- Category
- technology
- Original URL
- https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/22/singapores-nexstrom-wants-to-bring-2d-semiconductors-to-chip-fabs/
- Source URL
- https://techcrunch.com/feed/
Summary
- Score
- 3.5
- Created
- 22 Sep 2026, 9:24 PM
- Tags
- Audience
- developerssaas_startup_founders
What happened
Singapore-based Nexstrom, incubated by Xora Innovation, is building equipment and processes to grow transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) — atomically thin 2D materials — directly on 300mm commercial chip wafers. Its product, North Star, targets the scaling bottleneck that TSMC, Intel, IMEC, and others are also working on for next-generation transistor shrinkage.
Why it matters
This is early-stage deep-tech semiconductor manufacturing with no near-term product for software builders to adopt; the practical relevance is that Southeast Asia continues to build credibility in advanced chip fabrication R&D, which could matter for regional infrastructure and supply-chain decisions over a multi-year horizon.
Discussion angle
Whether regional deep-tech bets like this meaningfully shift Southeast Asia's position in the AI infrastructure supply chain, or whether it's too early-stage and too far from the software stack to matter for builders today.