Full profile interview
17 Mar 2025

United Launch Alliance: SMART
United Launch Alliance (ULA) is a major provider of rocket launch services. This profile focuses on SMART (Sensible Modular Autonomous Return Technology), which is currently in development and aims to enable the reusability of the Vulcan Centaur's two BE-4 booster engines.
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28 Jun 2024

Ayar Labs: AI Accelerator Interconnect
Ayar Labs is a San Jose-based startup working on an optical I/O connectivity solution that offers high bandwidth, low-power, low-latency connections, using photonic integrated circuits (PICs) and electrical integrated circuits (EICs) on a monolithic chiplet. IDTechEx Technology Analyst James Falkiner spoke with Terry Thorn, Vice President of Commercial Operations at Ayar Labs, discussing Ayar Labs' current and future solutions for high-speed in-package optical communications.
5 Jun 2024

Lab-Grown Diamond Proposes to Heat up the Quantum Technology Market
Material innovations underpin many of the exciting applications offered by emerging quantum technologies. IDTechEx's latest report, "Quantum Technology Market 2024-2034: Trends, Players, Forecasts", compares platforms based on superconductors, silicon photonics, alkali vapors, semiconductors, nanomaterials, and more. Each is seeking to enable solutions for quantum computing, sensing, and communications, with various advantages and disadvantages for each method.
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19 Apr 2024

Windings
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3 Oct 2023

Varjo
Varjo is a Finnish-headquartered producer of extended reality headsets and software solutions, primarily for high-end enterprise applications. Its flagship XR-3 headset has extremely strong passthrough mixed reality capabilities.