Full profile interview
13 May 2025

Amazon: Custom Silicon
Amazon, a global technology giant, is a major player in AI infrastructure and is the largest hyperscale cloud provider globally. Amazon is developing its vertical integration strategy by designing custom silicon, including chips for AI training, AI inference, networking, and general-purpose workloads.
Innovation Map
6 May 2025

Custom AI ASICs Used by Hyperscalers as AI Chips
Innovation map of Custom AI Application-Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs) used by hyperscalers as AI chips.
Full profile interview
22 Apr 2025

Tokamak Energy: TE Magnetics
Tokamak Energy are a commercial fusion startup pursuing the spherical tokamak fusion approach using high temperature superconductors (HTS), a technology which they have commercialized through their TE Magnetics division for other applications.
9 Apr 2025

Emerging Recyclable Materials for PCBs
Conventional printed circuit board (PCB) manufacturing is wasteful, harmful to the environment and energy intensive. This can be mitigated by the implementation of new recyclable materials and technologies, which have the potential to revolutionize electronics manufacturing.
2 Apr 2025

Thermal Touch and Imitating Texture on Smartphone Screens
Haptics refers to the technology that actively enhances the touch experience when engaging with devices, allowing for a more streamlined and stimulating customer experience with surface textures and thermal haptics. IDTechEx expects the haptics market to grow at a CAGR of 4.4% between 2024 and 2035.
Full profile interview
10 Mar 2025

Innatera Nanoystems BV
Innatera is a startup that develops neuromorphic microprocessors using spiking neural networks (SNN). It is a spin-off from the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, created in 2018. Its microprocessor is low-power and always on, so it is used for sensors that require continuous monitoring, such as human detection, audio interfaces, touch-free interfaces, presence detection, activity recognition, and ECG recognition.
Full profile interview
20 Feb 2025

Meta-Rosetta
Meta-Rosetta (also written as MetaRosetta) is an early-stage spinout of Taiwan's National Central University, focusing on providing software and services for the design of metasurface optics (meta-optics) including metalenses. The startup has an electronic design automation (EDA) tool for meta-optics, although has yet to decide on its final business model for the tool. IDTechEx met Meta-Rosetta's CEO, Dr. Wei-Lun Hsu, at Neo-Functional Materials 2025 in January 2025.
Full profile interview
30 Dec 2024

DEEPX
Founded in 2018, DEEPX is a private company based in South Korea. DEEPX designs and manufactures advanced NPUs (neural process units), which it integrates into its portfolio of SoC AI chips.