Manufacturing computer chips requires a critical step called computational lithography — transferring circuitry onto silicon using the world’s most sophisticated “cameras” under diffraction-limited conditions. Computational lithography is a complex computation involving electromagnetic physics, photochemistry, computational geometry, iterative optimization, and distributed computing. A typical foundry dedicates massive data centers for this computation, and yet this step is a bottleneck in bringing new nanometer technology nodes and computer architectures to market. We'll describe NVIDIA’s work, in collaboration with our partners, to dramatically accelerate computational lithography. This game-changer will help create new lithography solutions, making future semiconductor technologies cheaper and more predictable.