Breakthrough technologies and how they work.
Extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography is the printing process that transfers nanometer-scale circuit patterns onto silicon wafers. Its newest generation, High-NA, reached a commercial milestone in December 2025, when TechPowerUp reported that Intel installed ASML's TWINSCAN EXE:5200B scanner for…
A quantum computer is a machine that stores information in quantum states — qubits — and exploits superposition and entanglement, properties classical bits lack. Google's 105-qubit Willow chip, announced December 9, 2024, demonstrated both the approach's promise and its central obstacle: errors,…
Orion is the crewed capsule NASA built to carry astronauts to the Moon and back, and it launches atop the Space Launch System, the rocket NASA describes as the only one able to send Orion, astronauts, and cargo directly to the Moon in a single launch (documented). Together the two vehicles form…
Humanoid robots were the defining hardware story of CES 2026 in Las Vegas this January. Nvidia, AMD and Qualcomm all made robot announcements, and Google DeepMind said it would work with Boston Dynamics on new AI models for the Atlas robot, CNBC reported on January 9, 2026. Fourier's GR-3, a 165…
Blue Current, a Hayward, California battery startup, has closed a Series D extension of more than $80 million anchored by Amazon, the company announced on December 8, 2025. The round, joined by Koch, Piedmont Capital, Rusheen Capital Partners and Allen & Company, funds commercialization of…