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Tyson

Founded in 1999 in China, Tyson specializes in thermal management for servers and chips. Tyson has filed more than ten patents and has collaborated with leading companies including Lenovo, JD Technology, Ingenic Semiconductor, Ningbo Innchang Information Technology, Tsinghua Tongfang, Tencent, and China Telecom Tianyi Cloud, as well as foreign high-end chip central processing unit (CPU) manufacturers such as Advanced Micro Devices (AMD).

Beyond Math

Beyond Math presented at Cambridge Tech Week 2023. Tess Skyrme, Technology Analyst at IDTechEx, attended a presentation given by the founder Alan Patterson.

Groq

Groq is a Californian company that develops AI accelerator cards and racks featuring the company's proprietary GroqChip.

Waymo

Waymo is one of the leaders when it comes to level 4 robotaxi research, testing and deployment. It has a commercial publicly accessible service operating in Arizona and is working on increasing its capabilities in California. IDTechEx spoke to Waymo at CES 2023.

The Metaverse Standards Forum

The Metaverse Standards Forum is intended as the place for communication between stakeholders to create recommendations for standards to make an interoperable metaverse possible. The Khronos Group-founded organization counts almost 2500 companies as members. IDTechEx spoke to its chair, Neil Trevett, about the Forum's goals and work to date.

AiDEN: Enabling Services on Connected Cars

Vehicles have had connectivity for a long time, longer than most might think. However, OEMs have had a stranglehold on the data available from cars. It is mainly used for their own telematics analysis and has provided little added value to vehicle owners. Android Auto Operating System has standardized data from the vehicle and AiDEN has jumped on this as an opportunity to revolutionise connected vehicle services.

Glooko

Glooko is a prominent player in remote patient monitoring for diabetes care, with the company citing deployment across more than 8000 clinical locations over 30 countries.

Three Predictions for 2023 in Augmented and Virtual Reality

2022 was a turbulent year for Extended Reality (XR). The popularization of the metaverse concept raised massive interest in Augmented and Virtual Reality (AR/VR) devices as the gateway to this future vision of the internet, with excitement gathering over an expected revolution in how we communicate.

Lumus

Lumus is an Israeli company which designs optical engines for AR and other head mounted display (HMD) devices. These optical engines are composed of a display and reflective (also known as geometric) waveguide combiner — Lumus' key expertise is in the design of these waveguides, which can expand the exit pupil in two dimensions. Although largely fabless, it has its own smaller production line for R&D and specialized orders.

RayNeo (TCL)

TCL Technology were founded in 1981 and are a Chinese electronics company. At CES 2023, TCL were demonstrating their latest innovations in augmented reality glasses. TCL have incubated a now independent outfit 'RayNeo'. Tess Skyrme, Technology Analyst at IDTechEx, interviewed RayNeo's Algorithm Expert Zhuijun Bao and Global PR Manager Dongyao Nie at their booth.

VividQ and Dispelix: Pairing Holographic Displays with Waveguides

Holographic display technology firm VividQ discussed the development of a combined waveguide combiner and 3D holographic display system for AR headsets in conjunction with waveguide development firm Dispelix.