Glass4Chips is an initiative convening stakeholders across the glass-based microelectronics value chain, spanning fabrication, assembly, validation, workforce development, and early commercialization. Formed to address persistent translational and supply-chain bottlenecks, Glass4Chips aligns industry, academia, and ecosystem organizations around shared, pre-competitive needs to accelerate the adoption of glass-based substrates as a scalable, U.S.-based platform technology supporting multiple critical sectors.
Glass is emerging as a critical enabler for next-generation microelectronics, especially where performance, scaling, reliability, and manufacturability must advance together. The ecosystem is moving quickly, but adoption is often slowed by fragmented know-how, inconsistent terminology, incomplete qualification pathways, and the lack of widely accepted manufacturing standards. Glass4Chips exists to close those gaps.
We reduce the friction between early technical promise and real-world deployment of glass-based microsystems by coordinating the ecosystem around:
Glass4Chips is actively pursuing public and private funding to support proposed initiatives and supply chain development activities, enabling coordinated investment in validation, infrastructure readiness, and ecosystem capacity that accelerates industry adoption and strengthens the U.S. glass microelectronics ecosystem.
Organizations can engage with Glass4Chips by participating in working groups, contributing to standards and best-practice development, helping define reference flows and qualification expectations, communicating industry needs or supporting targeted pre-competitive initiatives. If you are exploring or advancing glass-based microelectronics, Glass4Chips provides a coordinated pathway to move faster and more confidently.
GlassIgnites is a prposed early-stage initiative accelerating the development of glass-based microsystems by fostering rapid experimentation, ecosystem growth and technology validation to transition new applications from concept to low rate initial production.