Technologies continue to improve such that the industry is now producing Systems-on-chip (SoCs) at the 7 nm node and is headed to 5 nm. At such a scale, any particle or contaminants can make a chip fail.

Xzero’s ULTRAWAT project is one of 57 projects that was selected in February 2018 of 1154 eligible applications to the new European Innovation Council (EIC) pilot program.