About
We're looking for companies that make semiconductors, devices and advanced materials, and that keep careful records of what they built and how it performed. The most valuable data links each build's recipe or process settings to its measured result, with failed builds and repeat runs kept. Lab notebooks that explain why a build failed are especially useful. Labs and startups that have wound down qualify.
- Location
- Anywhere
- Company size
- 20–2,000 employees
- Track record
- Several years of runs
- Kinds of companies
- Fabs and foundries, device makers (solar, photonics, quantum, power electronics), fabless chip designers, process and test equipment makers, materials and battery R&D labs
Is it a fit?
What we're looking for
- Run or build records the company owns, with recipe or process settings linked to measured performance
- 1,000+ runs, builds, wafers or experiments
- Every build kept, failed ones included, with dates
- Data that hasn't been published
Not a fit
- Data owned by a customer or foundry partner
- Published papers and datasheets only
- Licensed third-party IP
Who knows companies like this
Process and device engineers, fab and lab managers, materials scientists, and founders of wound-down hardware startups.
What the license covers
- Run and build records with measurements
- Lab notebooks
- Process, yield and equipment data
- Design and test files, where available
Nice to have, adds to what the company earns
- Lab notebooks with notes on why builds failed
- The same recipe built again on different days
- Measurements under more than one condition
- Yield, metrology and equipment logs
- Chip or device designs with their verification and test results
Tools we work with
- MES
- SPC / yield systems
- LIMS
- Electronic lab notebooks
- Cadence
- Synopsys
- OSIsoft PI
Questions we'll ask the company
If the company can answer these, it is likely a good referral.
- What run or lab records do you keep, and in which systems?
- Roughly how many runs or builds, over how many years?
- Do you keep failed builds and repeat runs?
- Do you own the data, and has any of it been published?
How referrals work
- 1
Find a fit
Pick an open request and think of a company that matches.
- 2
Refer them
Share the company and a few details about it, in about a minute.
- 3
We do the work
We scope their data, agree a license and handle the export.
- 4
You get paid
Up to $45,000 per company, after their first delivery.
On this request
Up to $45,000
- 10% of what we agree to pay the company
- Confirmed when the company signs its data license
- Paid after their first delivery