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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.