Background
27 Oct 2025

SICOXS
IDTechEx analyzes the business of SICOXS, a subsidiary of Sumitomo Metal Mining, that produces thermally bonded polycrystalline SiC wafers that reduce cost significantly for SiC power electronics.
IDTechEx analyst
27 Oct 2025

Material Innovations Addressing Rare Earth Magnet Supply and Demand
Addressing Critical Rare Earth Magnet Supply and Demand Challenges with Material Design and Manufacturing Innovations
24 Oct 2025

Active Cooling, Advanced Computing, and TIMs for Thermal Management
Thermal management technologies are an integral part of systems within a number of sectors, ensuring optimized performance and safety. This article covers some of the thermal management techniques used in data centers and semiconductors.
24 Oct 2025

New IDTechEx Report: Electric Motors for Electric Vehicles 2026-2036
Within the growing market for motors for EVs, there are trends around motor technology and topology, power and torque density, materials utilization, and thermal management. The new IDTechEx report "Electric Motors for Electric Vehicles 2026-2036: Technologies, Materials, Markets, and Forecasts" addresses these trends within the markets for battery-electric or hybrid cars, vans, trucks, buses, two-wheelers, three-wheelers, and microcars, with OEM use-cases, benchmarking, and granular market forecasts.
23 Oct 2025

Watches Sensing Heartrate and Glasses as Display Screens
Accessing health metrics during any hour of the day is becoming the new norm as wearable technology is gaining traction and becoming increasingly widespread. This article covers some of the most popular wearable types alongside some newer, emerging applications.
Full profile interview
23 Oct 2025

TQ Group
The TQ Group is a significant technology service provider and electronics specialist based in Germany, founded in 1994 as a small two-person operation and now growing to about 2,200 employees across 15 locations internationally, including Germany, Slovenia, Hungary, the U.S., and China.
23 Oct 2025

Solid State Batteries in 2026: From Hype to Adoption
The solid-state battery (SSB) industry is transforming, driven by advanced technologies and rising demand across applications. Offering breakthroughs in safety and energy density, SSBs could reach a $10 billion market by 2036. The IDTechEx report "Solid-State Batteries 2026-2036: Technology, Forecasts, Players" provides a comprehensive analysis of this dynamic industry, exploring the interplay between cutting-edge technologies, market trends, manufacturing challenges, and the global ecosystem surrounding solid-state batteries.
22 Oct 2025

Safer Battery Storage: Thermal Management & Fire Protection Trends
Thermal runaway in lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries has become one of the most pressing challenges for the global battery energy storage system (BESS) industry.
22 Oct 2025

What will 6G Bring to the World of Telecoms?
The telecom industry deploys new generations of wireless communications roughly every 10 years, with 6G expected to enter commercial use around 2030. So what is 6G, why is it needed, and how does it offer to change the game after the somewhat lacklustre performance of its predecessor, 5G?
Full profile interview
22 Oct 2025

Suzhou ShanHe Optoelectronic Technology Co., Ltd
Suzhou ShanHe Optoelectronic Technology Co., Ltd (branded as "SHPHOTONICS") is a China-based deep-tech company specializing in the development of AI-integrated metasurface optical systems and wafer-level meta-optics devices for multi-dimensional sensing, privacy-preserving computer vision, and compact optical modules. Founded in 2020, the company focuses on co-designing front-end metasurface "optical computing" with back-end AI to reduce system size, add spectral/polarization/depth channels, and enable secure edge intelligence across consumer and industrial scenarios.
21 Oct 2025

Key Power Electronics Trends of 2025 and Beyond
2025 has been a turning point for the power electronics industry. Despite a slowdown in EV (electric vehicle) sales, IDTechEx forecasts a tripling in the market size of the power electronics for electric vehicles market, to US$42 billion by 2036. In IDTechEx's new report, "Power Electronics for Electric Vehicles 2026-2036: Technologies, Markets, and Forecasts", these trends are analyzed and used to forecast unit sales, market size, and US$ per kW.
17 Oct 2025

Passive RFID Market 2025: Growth Dynamics Explained
The RFID industry is expected to maintain its upward trajectory, with IDTechEx forecasting the passive RFID market to reach a total value of US$8.4 billion in 2025, representing growth of approximately 10% compared to 2024. This article provides a detailed breakdown of the Ultra High Frequency (UHF) and High Frequency (HF) segments, analyzing their current market dynamics, growth drivers, and long-term opportunities.
Full profile interview
16 Oct 2025

CellCube
CellCube is a vanadium redox flow battery (VRFB) developer and manufacturer and is based in Austria. IDTechEx spoke with the company during a site visit at The International Flow Battery Forum 2025.
Full profile interview
16 Oct 2025

Invinity Energy Systems
Invinity Energy Systems is a vanadium redox flow battery (VRFB) developer and manufacturer, based in the UK. This profile details several key updates from the company at The International Flow Battery Forum (IFBF) 2025.
Update
16 Oct 2025

BioZen Batteries
BioZen Batteries is based in California US and is an organic electrolyte manufacturer for RFBs. The company has developed a mini flow cell test system, named Redoxino{^TM}, which it presented on at The International Flow Battery Forum (IFBF) 2025.
Update interview
16 Oct 2025

Schmalz
Schmalz is known for its vacuum technology solutions, and is based in Germany. At the International Flow Battery Forum (IFBF) 2025, the company presented on its flow frame topology it had developed and IDTechEx spoke with one of their representatives.
Update interview
16 Oct 2025

Rivus Batteries
Rivus Batteries (Rivus) is an organic RFB developer based in Sweden. IDTechEx interviewed the company at The International Flow Battery Forum (IFBF) 2025.
Update interview
16 Oct 2025

Jolt Energy
Jolt Energy is a developer of an organic RFB technology based in the US. IDTechEx spoke with the company at International Flow Battery Forum (IFBF) 2025.
Full profile interview
16 Oct 2025

Quino Energy
Quino Energy is an organic redox flow battery (RFB) developer based in the US. IDTechEx interviewed Dr Eugene Beh, the CEO of Quino Energy at The International Flow Battery Forum (IFBF) 2025.
Full profile interview
16 Oct 2025

AquaBattery
AquaBattery is a Dutch company that develops and commercializes a novel flow battery for long duration energy storage using water and salt.