BAE Systems received a $35,000,000 CHIPS grant in December 2023 to increase production at a New Hampshire facility producing semiconductors for defense and aerospace applications.
Rocket Lab signed a non-binding preliminary memorandum of terms with the U.S. Department of Commerce that could provide up to $23,900,000 in direct funding under the CHIPS and Science Act.
The U.S. federal government had made $29,500,000,000 in CHIPS grant awards to nine companies before Rocket Lab’s announcement, including multibillion-dollar awards to Intel, Micron, and Samsung.
AcubeSAT also tests microfluidic chips as modular devices for multi-parallel biotechnological experiments in orbit.
Aitech Systems’ AI-optimized chips are not designed to tolerate prolonged exposure to extreme thermal and atmospheric conditions such as sitting on a launch pad in 100-degree weather for weeks and then operating in vacuum at minus 40 degrees.
Standardized chips that Iridium plans to enable from 2026 for smartphones to send texts and SOS alerts via its satellites could potentially use Satelles signals for timing synchronization and in-building location services.
In August 2023 SatixFy sold a subsidiary that builds antennas and other satellite systems and subsystems to Canadian space hardware specialist MDA to focus on payload chips for the low Earth orbit constellation market.
Machina Labs machines use Nvidia chips and rely on machine learning to replicate the work of craftsmen who incrementally deform metals or composites to create shapes.
The MACSAT mission will test advanced 0.005 kg IoT algorithms and endorse commercial LEO 0.005 kg NB-IoT chips.
Lumotive has top-tier manufacturing partnerships and patented fabrication processes to produce its LCM chips.
Lumotive has a pipeline of higher performance and more compact beam steering chips in development.
As part of the SatixFy transaction, MDA agreed to make $20,000,000 in advanced payments for chips used in satellites and ground systems that SatixFy intends to focus on.
OEMs with vehicles integrating EyeQ4 and EyeQ6 chips can meet the new standards by updating existing software without new hardware requirements.
Zero-Error Systems’ radiation-hardened chips flew for the first time on three satellites launched in 2021 by Japan’s Kyushu Institute of Technology.
Lumotive's patented technology delivers the world's first solid-state metasurface beam steering chips ready for mass production.
Lumotive’s LCM chips provide unprecedented miniaturization, lower costs, and higher reliability compared to existing scanning lidar solutions.
Congress directed NASA to establish the Moon to Mars Program Office in a NASA authorization enacted last year as part of the CHIPS and Science Act.
Amazon designed the Prometheus chips in-house and acquired them at approximately one-tenth the market cost.
The final two Tissue Chips in Space experiments delivered by Dragon are Cardinal Heart 2.0 and Engineered Heart Tissues-2.
The M30 Reference Design integrates Lumentum’s M52-100 VCSEL array technology with Lumotive’s beam steering chips.