Why we built FabQED.

Semiconductor progress is built on the work of fabs and the suppliers behind them. A new generation of devices can demand more from a material, a process or a piece of equipment. A production issue can put that same relationship under immediate pressure. In either situation, solving the technical problem and coordinating the response have to happen together.

A fab may ask why a wafer defect appeared or whether a new material is ready for use. The answer requires applications, lab, quality, manufacturing, supply chain and commercial people to work from the same facts. Results need to be interpreted in the customer’s process context, questions need owners, and commitments need to be carried through. A promising lab result still has to hold up in the fab.

Our founder, Fitih “Fitz” Cinnor, has experienced that work from both sides of the fab–supplier relationship. At Intel, his work spanned semiconductor process and equipment development and the transition into high-volume manufacturing. At 3M, he led global businesses and product portfolios. Across research, technology development and business leadership, he saw how closely scientific understanding, manufacturing execution and customer adoption depend on one another.

That experience revealed a recurring capability and capacity gap. Manufacturers’ technical demands keep advancing, while specialist capability and execution capacity are unevenly distributed across the supplier base. Suppliers must support current production while developing the technologies their customers will need next. The people who understand the material, the process or the failure mechanism are often stretched across several urgent demands.

Fragmented work makes that gap harder to close. Useful results can sit in lab reports while relevant process history remains in another system. Decisions and responsibilities can be split across meetings, spreadsheets and email. Context gets lost at handoffs, people repeat the same questions, and the customer waits while the response is assembled. Even strong individual contributions can struggle to become a coordinated, completed outcome.

We founded FabQED to help bring that work together. Our mission is to connect semiconductor expertise, evidence and accountable cross-functional execution around the customer’s problem. The aim is to help fabs and suppliers carry a complaint through investigation and verified closure, and carry an opportunity through evaluation, qualification and production adoption to revenue. The context, decisions and ownership should travel with the work throughout that journey.

FabQED is a product platform of semiAIfoundry, which applies advanced AI to scientific and technological challenges. FabQED brings that purpose to the practical realities of the semiconductor industry: extending scarce expertise, helping teams act on what they learn and carrying promising work into useful outcomes. We want to help fabs and suppliers advance together, with the evidence to trust the result and the accountability to see it through.