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Atomera Inc
Atomera Inc. develops and licenses a silicon material technology called Mears Silicon Technology, or MST. The company is not a chip manufacturer; it sells intellectual property, engineering support, and development services that help semiconductor makers improve transistor performance and power efficiency in their own chips. Its main customers are chipmakers, foundries, and other companies in the semiconductor supply chain that want to use MST in manufacturing. Atomera makes money mostly through licensing agreements, development projects, and related technical services tied to helping customers test and adopt the material in their products and production lines. What makes Atomera different is that it sits one step upstream from chip production. Instead of building chips itself, it tries to become part of the manufacturing process by embedding its material into a customer’s existing design and fabrication flow. That gives it a business model more like a technology licensor than a traditional semiconductor producer.
Atomera Inc. develops and licenses a silicon material technology called Mears Silicon Technology, or MST. The company is not a chip manufacturer; it sells intellectual property, engineering support, and development services that help semiconductor makers improve transistor performance and power efficiency in their own chips.
Its main customers are chipmakers, foundries, and other companies in the semiconductor supply chain that want to use MST in manufacturing. Atomera makes money mostly through licensing agreements, development projects, and related technical services tied to helping customers test and adopt the material in their products and production lines.
What makes Atomera different is that it sits one step upstream from chip production. Instead of building chips itself, it tries to become part of the manufacturing process by embedding its material into a customer’s existing design and fabrication flow. That gives it a business model more like a technology licensor than a traditional semiconductor producer.
Progress: Atomera said it made solid progress with multiple customers, especially in gate-all-around logic, RF SOI, power devices, and GaN, as it tries to turn technical wins into commercial agreements.
Gate-all-around: Management said it now has measured silicon results that beat an industry-standard alternative and is actively running further demonstrations with 2 target customers.
GaN breakthrough: The company highlighted preliminary data showing MST may dramatically reduce the parasitic channel in RF GaN on silicon, which management called a potentially major technical breakthrough.
Revenue: Q1 revenue was only $11,000, and management guided Q2 revenue to $50,000 to $100,000.
Cash: Atomera ended Q1 with $41.1 million of cash, cash equivalents and short-term investments after a February equity raise.
Expenses: Full-year 2026 non-GAAP operating expense guidance remains unchanged at about $18.5 million.
Deal timing: Management said it is hopeful some commercial agreements could still happen this year, but acknowledged that customer evaluation cycles can take several months.
