

Artificial Intelligence Research
Apr 11, 2025

Photonic Integrated Circuits (PICs) in Healthcare, Quantum, and More
The ability of PICs to precisely manipulate light at the chip level opens the door to various cutting-edge fields beyond data communication, including sensing, LiDAR, quantum computing, and high-performance computing (HPC).While PIC-based transceivers are set to dominate the market, with long-range transceivers for 5G/6G networks forming the second largest sector of the overall market, other applications for PIC are growing steadily.
Artificial Intelligence Research
Apr 9, 2025

Emerging Recyclable Materials for PCBs
Conventional printed circuit board (PCB) manufacturing is wasteful, harmful to the environment and energy intensive. This can be mitigated by the implementation of new recyclable materials and technologies, which have the potential to revolutionize electronics manufacturing.
Artificial Intelligence Research
Apr 9, 2025

The Packaging Technologies Behind NVIDIA's 3D-Stacked CPO
At GTC 2025, NVIDIA announced two new networking switch platforms - Spectrum-X Photonics and Quantum-X Photonics - based on Co-Packaged Optics (CPO) technology. Both platforms incorporate TSMC's 3D hybrid bonding technology for its CPO, and these will be the world's first 3D-stacked silicon photonics engine.
Artificial Intelligence Research
Apr 7, 2025

Futuristic Robotics: Robodogs and Gardening Experts
With the introduction of collaborative robots and AI agents, household chores could also become a display of the latest intelligent robotics technology. From companionship robots that engage in conversation and play board games to cars that drive themselves safely using radar and artificial intelligence, the possibilities for robotics are endless.
Artificial Intelligence Research
Mar 31, 2025

Quantum Sensors: From Lab to Chip Through Semiconductor Fabs
In this article, IDTechEx explores how semiconductor manufacturing holds the key to enabling the low-cost mass production of quantum sensors.
Artificial Intelligence Research
Mar 26, 2025

Key Insights from Data Centre World 2025: Sustainability and AI
IDTechEx analysts attended Data Centre World in London as part of ongoing data center sustainability and thermal management research. This article highlights three insights from the event.
Artificial Intelligence Research
Mar 19, 2025

Radar-Enhanced Safety for Advancing Autonomy
Front and side radars serve distinct yet complementary roles in ADAS, making them essential for autonomous vehicles. IDTechEx explores the latest radar developments and explores autonomy leveling up, with Level 2+ asserting itself within the US and Europe's autonomous vehicle markets.
Artificial Intelligence Research
Mar 18, 2025

Demand for HBM to Grow 15-fold by 2035 for HPC and AI, says IDTechEx
Parallel computer architectures, such as those deployed for modern high-performance computing (HPC) and artificial intelligence (AI) workloads, frequently encounter memory bottlenecks that limit performance, known as the 'memory wall'. IDTechEx assesses the key developments and trends in memory and storage technologies, including high-bandwidth memory (HBM), DDR, NAND, and many more.
Artificial Intelligence Research
Mar 17, 2025

Small Sensors Make Big Waves - IDTechEx Explores Quantum Sensors
Quantum sensors get their name from their ability to measure on a quantum scale the smallest known parts of the universe, including atoms and other tiny particles, some of which were unknown before the introduction of this technology. IDTechEx's report, "Quantum Sensors Market 2025-2045: Technology, Trends, Players, Forecasts" provides an in-depth analysis of the technology by type and application, forecasting the quantum sensor market to reach US$2.2 billion in 2045, with a compound annual growth rate of 11.4%.
Artificial Intelligence Research
Mar 14, 2025

Green Computing Ecosystems: IDTechEx Explores Sustainable Data Centers
Data centers can be likened to an ecosystem of computing facilities that contain many facets required to store and handle data. IDTechEx's latest report, "Sustainability for Data Centers 2025-2035: Green Technologies, Market Forecasts, and Players", unpacks efforts being made in the data center sector towards increased sustainability in response to the rising CO2 emissions from the development of AI.
Artificial Intelligence Research
Mar 10, 2025

The Rise of Chiplets and Simplified Interconnectivity
Chiplets allow for GPU, CPU, and IO components to become miniaturized to suit the rise of smaller and more compact devices and hardware and can bring about a means of integrating various functions into a more simplified, unified design.
Artificial Intelligence Research
Mar 6, 2025

IDTechEx Explores Big Tech's Impact on the Quantum Computing Market
In the last few months, three of the world's largest tech giants made waves with their announcements in quantum computing. But what will the impact of Microsoft's Majorana 1, Google's Willow, and Amazon's Ocelot be once the dust has settled, and is it just big tech making strides in developing quantum computers?
Artificial Intelligence Research
Mar 4, 2025

Water Usage in Semiconductor Manufacturing to Double by 2035
In 2023 alone, semiconductor giant TSMC reported consumption of a staggering 101 million m3 of water, highlighting the scale of thirst in this fast-growing sector. Furthermore, as node technology advances, so do the number of manufacturing process steps, and the usage of single wafer tools instead of batch tools, making the task of reducing water usage both challenging and even more critical.
Artificial Intelligence Research
Mar 3, 2025

Exploring New Materials for Photonic Integrated Circuits
It should come as no surprise that PIC transceivers are fast becoming essential tools in the AI revolution, where they speed up connections between nodes in data centers whilst reducing power consumption, allowing larger AI models to be trained and executed. IDTechEx's recent report on the topic, "Silicon Photonics and Photonic Integrated Circuits 2025-2035: Technologies, Market, Forecasts", predicts this application to be the major contributor to its US$54 billion forecast for the PIC market in 2035.
Artificial Intelligence Research
Feb 27, 2025

Nearly US$1 Billion Dollars Flow into Automotive Radar Startups
Newly established radar startups worldwide have raised nearly US$1.2 billion over the past 12 years; approximately US$980 million of which is predominantly directed toward the automotive sector. Through more than 40 funding rounds, these companies have driven the implementation and advancement of radar technologies in key areas such as autonomous driving and Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS).
Artificial Intelligence Research
Feb 26, 2025

Webinar: Photonic Integrated Circuits - The Heart of the AI Revolution
Thursday 13 March 2025 - Why Photonic Integrated Circuits are at the Heart of the AI Revolution; What is a PIC?; The role of PICs, including silicon photonics, in data center transceivers; How the growth in AI accelerator demand is shaping the PIC transceiver market; A roadmap for the future of datacom transceivers; An insight into IDTechEx's ten-year forecasts for the PIC market
Artificial Intelligence Research
Feb 20, 2025

Top-Tier ADAS Systems - IDTechEx Explores Automotive Radar Technology
Radars have had a place within the automotive sector for over two decades, beginning with the first use for adaptive cruise control and many other developments taking place since. With radar technology becoming cheaper and, therefore, more widely available, ADAS system features are offered by many vehicle manufacturers. IDTechEx predicts that the automotive radar market will grow with a CAGR of 4.8% between 2024 and 2034.
Artificial Intelligence Research
Feb 20, 2025

Data Centers Investing in Nuclear, Fuel Cells, and Li-ion Batteries
IDTechEx forecasts that by 2035, the global data center sector will have saved US$150 billion by using low-carbon energy sources compared to a fossil fuel scenario (taking 2024 as the baseline). Some emerging energy technologies expected to play an increasingly important role are explored in this article.
Artificial Intelligence Research
Feb 18, 2025

High-Performance Computing (HPC) Powering Breakthroughs
High-perfornance computing (HPC) hardware powers the most advanced computer systems in the world, used for complex simulations, training AI, and more. Explore the driving forces behind the growing demand for HPC, along with the key trends shaping its future.
Artificial Intelligence Research
Apr 11, 2025

Photonic Integrated Circuits (PICs) in Healthcare, Quantum, and More
The ability of PICs to precisely manipulate light at the chip level opens the door to various cutting-edge fields beyond data communication, including sensing, LiDAR, quantum computing, and high-performance computing (HPC).While PIC-based transceivers are set to dominate the market, with long-range transceivers for 5G/6G networks forming the second largest sector of the overall market, other applications for PIC are growing steadily.
Artificial Intelligence Research
Apr 9, 2025

The Packaging Technologies Behind NVIDIA's 3D-Stacked CPO
At GTC 2025, NVIDIA announced two new networking switch platforms - Spectrum-X Photonics and Quantum-X Photonics - based on Co-Packaged Optics (CPO) technology. Both platforms incorporate TSMC's 3D hybrid bonding technology for its CPO, and these will be the world's first 3D-stacked silicon photonics engine.
Artificial Intelligence Research
Mar 31, 2025

Quantum Sensors: From Lab to Chip Through Semiconductor Fabs
In this article, IDTechEx explores how semiconductor manufacturing holds the key to enabling the low-cost mass production of quantum sensors.
Artificial Intelligence Research
Mar 19, 2025

Radar-Enhanced Safety for Advancing Autonomy
Front and side radars serve distinct yet complementary roles in ADAS, making them essential for autonomous vehicles. IDTechEx explores the latest radar developments and explores autonomy leveling up, with Level 2+ asserting itself within the US and Europe's autonomous vehicle markets.
Artificial Intelligence Research
Mar 17, 2025

Small Sensors Make Big Waves - IDTechEx Explores Quantum Sensors
Quantum sensors get their name from their ability to measure on a quantum scale the smallest known parts of the universe, including atoms and other tiny particles, some of which were unknown before the introduction of this technology. IDTechEx's report, "Quantum Sensors Market 2025-2045: Technology, Trends, Players, Forecasts" provides an in-depth analysis of the technology by type and application, forecasting the quantum sensor market to reach US$2.2 billion in 2045, with a compound annual growth rate of 11.4%.
Artificial Intelligence Research
Mar 10, 2025

The Rise of Chiplets and Simplified Interconnectivity
Chiplets allow for GPU, CPU, and IO components to become miniaturized to suit the rise of smaller and more compact devices and hardware and can bring about a means of integrating various functions into a more simplified, unified design.
Artificial Intelligence Research
Mar 4, 2025

Water Usage in Semiconductor Manufacturing to Double by 2035
In 2023 alone, semiconductor giant TSMC reported consumption of a staggering 101 million m3 of water, highlighting the scale of thirst in this fast-growing sector. Furthermore, as node technology advances, so do the number of manufacturing process steps, and the usage of single wafer tools instead of batch tools, making the task of reducing water usage both challenging and even more critical.
Artificial Intelligence Research
Feb 27, 2025

Nearly US$1 Billion Dollars Flow into Automotive Radar Startups
Newly established radar startups worldwide have raised nearly US$1.2 billion over the past 12 years; approximately US$980 million of which is predominantly directed toward the automotive sector. Through more than 40 funding rounds, these companies have driven the implementation and advancement of radar technologies in key areas such as autonomous driving and Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS).
Artificial Intelligence Research
Feb 20, 2025

Top-Tier ADAS Systems - IDTechEx Explores Automotive Radar Technology
Radars have had a place within the automotive sector for over two decades, beginning with the first use for adaptive cruise control and many other developments taking place since. With radar technology becoming cheaper and, therefore, more widely available, ADAS system features are offered by many vehicle manufacturers. IDTechEx predicts that the automotive radar market will grow with a CAGR of 4.8% between 2024 and 2034.
Artificial Intelligence Research
Feb 18, 2025

High-Performance Computing (HPC) Powering Breakthroughs
High-perfornance computing (HPC) hardware powers the most advanced computer systems in the world, used for complex simulations, training AI, and more. Explore the driving forces behind the growing demand for HPC, along with the key trends shaping its future.
Artificial Intelligence Research
Apr 9, 2025

Emerging Recyclable Materials for PCBs
Conventional printed circuit board (PCB) manufacturing is wasteful, harmful to the environment and energy intensive. This can be mitigated by the implementation of new recyclable materials and technologies, which have the potential to revolutionize electronics manufacturing.
Artificial Intelligence Research
Apr 7, 2025

Futuristic Robotics: Robodogs and Gardening Experts
With the introduction of collaborative robots and AI agents, household chores could also become a display of the latest intelligent robotics technology. From companionship robots that engage in conversation and play board games to cars that drive themselves safely using radar and artificial intelligence, the possibilities for robotics are endless.
Artificial Intelligence Research
Mar 26, 2025

Key Insights from Data Centre World 2025: Sustainability and AI
IDTechEx analysts attended Data Centre World in London as part of ongoing data center sustainability and thermal management research. This article highlights three insights from the event.
Artificial Intelligence Research
Mar 18, 2025

Demand for HBM to Grow 15-fold by 2035 for HPC and AI, says IDTechEx
Parallel computer architectures, such as those deployed for modern high-performance computing (HPC) and artificial intelligence (AI) workloads, frequently encounter memory bottlenecks that limit performance, known as the 'memory wall'. IDTechEx assesses the key developments and trends in memory and storage technologies, including high-bandwidth memory (HBM), DDR, NAND, and many more.
Artificial Intelligence Research
Mar 14, 2025

Green Computing Ecosystems: IDTechEx Explores Sustainable Data Centers
Data centers can be likened to an ecosystem of computing facilities that contain many facets required to store and handle data. IDTechEx's latest report, "Sustainability for Data Centers 2025-2035: Green Technologies, Market Forecasts, and Players", unpacks efforts being made in the data center sector towards increased sustainability in response to the rising CO2 emissions from the development of AI.
Artificial Intelligence Research
Mar 6, 2025

IDTechEx Explores Big Tech's Impact on the Quantum Computing Market
In the last few months, three of the world's largest tech giants made waves with their announcements in quantum computing. But what will the impact of Microsoft's Majorana 1, Google's Willow, and Amazon's Ocelot be once the dust has settled, and is it just big tech making strides in developing quantum computers?
Artificial Intelligence Research
Mar 3, 2025

Exploring New Materials for Photonic Integrated Circuits
It should come as no surprise that PIC transceivers are fast becoming essential tools in the AI revolution, where they speed up connections between nodes in data centers whilst reducing power consumption, allowing larger AI models to be trained and executed. IDTechEx's recent report on the topic, "Silicon Photonics and Photonic Integrated Circuits 2025-2035: Technologies, Market, Forecasts", predicts this application to be the major contributor to its US$54 billion forecast for the PIC market in 2035.
Artificial Intelligence Research
Feb 26, 2025

Webinar: Photonic Integrated Circuits - The Heart of the AI Revolution
Thursday 13 March 2025 - Why Photonic Integrated Circuits are at the Heart of the AI Revolution; What is a PIC?; The role of PICs, including silicon photonics, in data center transceivers; How the growth in AI accelerator demand is shaping the PIC transceiver market; A roadmap for the future of datacom transceivers; An insight into IDTechEx's ten-year forecasts for the PIC market
Artificial Intelligence Research
Feb 20, 2025

Data Centers Investing in Nuclear, Fuel Cells, and Li-ion Batteries
IDTechEx forecasts that by 2035, the global data center sector will have saved US$150 billion by using low-carbon energy sources compared to a fossil fuel scenario (taking 2024 as the baseline). Some emerging energy technologies expected to play an increasingly important role are explored in this article.