{"id":84738,"date":"2025-12-17T14:44:19","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T14:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/x-lights-nicholas-kelez-and-pat-gelsinger-on-government-backed-chips-l-strictlyvc-palo-alto\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T14:44:19","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T14:44:19","slug":"x-lights-nicholas-kelez-and-pat-gelsinger-on-government-backed-chips-l-strictlyvc-palo-alto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/x-lights-nicholas-kelez-and-pat-gelsinger-on-government-backed-chips-l-strictlyvc-palo-alto\/","title":{"rendered":"X-Light&#8217;s Nicholas Kelez and Pat Gelsinger on government-backed chips l StrictlyVC Palo Alto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pat Gelsinger spent 35 years across two stints at Intel, most recently as CEO. Nicholas Kelez is the CEO of <!--more--> X-Light, a semiconductor startup developing breakthrough EUV laser technology for next-generation chipmaking. In this conversation, they unpack what it takes to wake Moore&#8217;s law from its nap, why the U.S. government just became X-Light&#8217;s largest shareholder, and how faith and deep tech are shaping the future of American competitiveness in the AI era.<\/p>\n<p>Recorded at StrictlyVC Palo Alto, #sponsored by Playground, this conversation explores the technology gap America is racing to close and the physics that might just make it possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pat Gelsinger spent 35 years across two stints at Intel, most recently as CEO. Nicholas Kelez is the CEO of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":84754,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}