The commercial space industry has reached a significant technological milestone with the successful launch of the world's first commercially developed nuclear-powered satellite. Carried into orbit aboard SpaceX's Transporter-17 rideshare mission, the BOHR (Betavoltaic Orbital High-Reliability) CubeSat demonstrates an emerging class of space power systems designed to operate independently of sunlight for extended periods. Although the spacecraft itself continues to rely on conventional solar...

The global artificial intelligence boom is no longer just a story about large language models, GPU shortages, or cloud computing expansion. Beneath the surface, a quieter but equally decisive transformation is unfolding in the semiconductor industry. At the center of this shift is NAND flash memory, a foundational storage technology that is rapidly becoming one of the most strategically important components of the AI era. A striking example of this transformation is the resurgence of Kioxia,...

For more than half a century, semiconductor innovation has been defined by an extraordinary pursuit of miniaturization. Every successive generation of transistor technology has enabled faster processors, greater computational density, lower power consumption, and entirely new categories of digital innovation. However, as transistor dimensions approached atomic scales, many experts questioned whether conventional silicon scaling could continue. IBM's announcement of the world's first sub-1...