19 Aug 2025

Thermal Interface Materials - Transition to High-Performance Materials
IDTechEx forecasts that the market size of thermal interface materials (TIMs) will exceed US$7 billion, covering multiple industries including EV batteries, EV power electronics (TIM1 and TIM2), data centers, advanced semiconductor packaging (TIM1 and TIM1.5), ADAS sensors, consumer electronics, and 5G. Find out more in this new article by Senior Technology Analyst Yulin Wang.
Full profile interview
18 Aug 2025

Orange Quantum Systems
Orange Quantum Systems is developing machines for the automated testing of quantum chips.
Background
18 Aug 2025

Factorial Energy
Factorial Energy is an American developer of solid-state battery technology. IDTechEx attended Factorial's webinar as part of the Battery Manufacturing & Simulation Summit, and this company profile will focus on Factorial's use of dry coating methods for cathode production in solid-state cells.
15 Aug 2025

IDTechEx Analyst Comment on Geneva Plastic Treaty Talk Breakdown
The breakdown of plastics treaty negotiations in Geneva today marks a significant blow to both global environmental governance and the plastics sector. IDTechEx Technology Analyst James Kennedy has made the following comment.
Update
15 Aug 2025

Lyten: Market Update
Lyten is an American developer of lithium sulphur batteries. This company profile focuses on Lyten's acquisition of key assets from Northvolt, a Swedish Li-ion manufacturer that recently declared bankruptcy.
Full profile interview
15 Aug 2025

Syklea
Syklea has developed a water-free solution using microalgae to capture and utilize carbon dioxide from flue gas.
15 Aug 2025

New IDTechEx Market Report: Micro EVs 2026-2046
This new IDTechEx report provides critical insight into the fast-growing micro EV industry of electric two-wheelers, three-wheelers, and microcars. IDTechEx's report highlights critical sales trends across all major global markets. Key players and models are benchmarked, including analyses of battery technologies, motor power, and pricing. 20-year granular forecasts broken down by region, power class, and battery chemistry highlight how micro EVs will grow to be an over US$90 billion opportunity by 2046.
15 Aug 2025

The Smallest Scale Operations with Quantum Technologies
Quantum technology developments are creating opportunities for increased sensing sensitivity, extra secure communications, and high-speed computing. This article explores three of the main areas of quantum technology that are on the rise.
14 Aug 2025

Safety and Sensitivity Achieved with Sensing Technology
Sensor technologies are advancing and being developed to detect things from human facial expressions and mood, all the way down to the tiny scale of particles on a quantum level. This article explores sensing technologies across different sectors including automotives, consumer devices, and quantum.
14 Aug 2025

Development Trends for Catalysts & Membranes in Water Electrolyzers
This article explores the key innovation trends for catalysts and membranes across the AEL, PEMEL, AEMEL, and SOEC water electrolysis technologies. This article draws on research from IDTechEx's report, "Materials for Green Hydrogen Production 2026-2036: Technologies, Players, Forecasts".
14 Aug 2025

Scaling the Silicon: Why GPUs are Leading the AI Data Center Boom
With the rising prevalence of these data centers, the accelerated computing chips needed within them are hot in today's markets. In the market report "AI Chips for Data Centers and Cloud 2025-2035: Technologies, Market, Forecasts", IDTechEx explores high-performance GPUs used in AI data centers and cloud computing.
This article shows the scale of deployments from NVIDIA and AMD for today's AI infrastructure, and highlights technology enablers and challenges of these AI chips.
Update interview
13 Aug 2025

Brentwood Industries: Structured Packing
Brentwood Industries is a US-based company founded in 1965. The company supplies column internals such as structured packing for liquid solvent carbon capture processes.
13 Aug 2025

New IDTechEx Market Report: Quantum Sensors Market 2026-2046
This new IDTechEx report characterizes the quantum sensor market, key technologies, and players. Coverage across 20 quantum sensing technology areas, with applications of quantum sensors in electric vehicles, navigation, medical imaging, and quantum computing with market forecasts from 2026 to 2046. It reveals significant opportunity, with the quantum sensor market forecast to reach US$1.9bn by 2046.
13 Aug 2025

Supercapacitors Market Expected to Reach US$4.86 Billion by 2036
The global market for supercapacitors has seen steady growth over the last decade due to niches in automotive, power grid, and industrial applications, and will continue to do so from 2026 to 2036, with an expected global market size of US$4.86 billion by 2036. The newly-released report from IDTechEx, "Supercapacitors 2026-2036: Technologies, Applications and Forecasts", offers in-depth independent analysis of this growing market.
Update
12 Aug 2025

Graphene Composites
Graphene Composites is a UK based start-up, specializing in the incorporation of graphene into an aerogel composite for a range of applications.
Full profile interview
12 Aug 2025

QuantWare
QuantWare is a spinout of QuTech, TU Delft, offering QPUs as well as components and foundry services for superconducting qubit quantum computing.
12 Aug 2025

Advances in Direct Li-ion Recycling & Battery-Grade Graphite Recovery
The Li-ion battery recycling market is expanding rapidly through partnerships, funding, and new large-scale facilities using established recycling technologies to recover valuable materials. IDTechEx forecasts that the Li-ion battery recycling market will be valued at US$52B in 2045, but continued innovation and advancements in direct LIB recycling and battery-grade graphite recycling technologies will be crucial to realize this full value.
11 Aug 2025

Upcoming Webinar: Software Defined Vehicles Market Outlook to 2036
Webinar: Software Defined Vehicles: Central Compute, OTA Monetization & AI - Market Outlook to 2036
Presenter: Shihao Fu, Technology Analyst, IDTechEx
Date: Thursday 21 August 2025
Can't attend live? Register anyway to receive the on-demand recording and presentation slides, available for a limited time.
8 Aug 2025

Clean Chemicals and Self-Healing Cars - The Future of Sustainability
Natural chemicals, machine learning that can advance enzyme engineering, and bioplastic food containers are just some of the benefits of sustainable chemical technology. This article covers some of the sustainable technologies of the future, explored in IDTechEx's research.
8 Aug 2025

Comfortable and Continuous Data Monitoring with Wearables
Achieving continuity and efficiency with biometrics and health data can be achieved with wearables. This article explores some of the main devices in the wearables market today including smart watches, and others which are emerging, such as smart gumshields.