Space & Aerospace

Denso bid $8.3B for Rohm in March. Three weeks later, Toshiba and Mitsubishi made a counter-offer. The real prize: SiC substrate supply for every EV maker on the planet.

Meta and OpenAI asked Arm for finished silicon three years ago. Apple and Qualcomm stayed away from the launch. That tells you everything about who wins and who loses on the $100B AGI CPU bet.

Four modes green. Commercial data unusual for a Chinese startup this size. But 10–20 GEO satellites per year run dry from fuel depletion, and the US has four refueling missions launching in 2026. On-orbit refueling just crossed from demo to infrastructure.

The physics of Venus kills electronics in under three hours. Delft University of Technology thinks 200 days is possible. Here is why that is a heat-transfer problem, not a materials problem.

A neural network told engineers to make a transistor bigger. The correct answer was smaller. A University of Florida paper shows causal AI gets analog circuit design right where standard neural networks get the direction completely backwards.

SpaceX filed its IPO on April Fools Day. The $1.75 trillion price tag is not the joke.

Synopsys, Intel, AMD, and Nvidia just spent a conference panel agreeing on something unusual: the tedious parts of chip design are about to get automated. The people building the tools say it will take two years. The startups trying to build around them think that is too generous.

The question is not whether commercial satellites can track space objects. They now demonstrably can. The question is what happens when anyone with a subscription can buy the same data.

The Orion spacecraft sitting on that rocket was tested in Ohio, calibrated in Ohio, and built by a supply chain anchored in Ohio. Tonight is the latest stress test of a 60-year aerospace bet no other state can replicate.

Brazil has been trying to enforce its forest law with 30-meter satellite imagery since 2008. A new dataset from Google cuts that down to 5 meters, making selective logging and buffer violations finally visible.

ISO/PAS 8800 certification exists. A Chinese automaker got it. An Infineon whitepaper explains the technical gap it closes. The problem: nobody has shipped an AI function under the new standard yet.