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<strong>SpaceX's Starfall is a flat disk capsule built to return up to 1,000 kg from orbit (3 minute read)</strong>
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Starfall is an uncrewed SpaceX reentry capsule shaped like a disk, about 10 feet across and 2.5 feet tall, that launches on Falcon 9, with Starship planned. It returns up to 1,000 kg from orbit by parachute and ocean splashdown, targeting about 700 nautical miles off the US West Coast. SpaceX's stated goals are fast point-to-point cargo delivery and return of in-space manufactured goods. The first demo launched on June 23, and it puts SpaceX in competition with return-capsule startups like Varda.
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Foxconn wants to turn other companies' quantum designs into production systems, without owning the qubit technology itself. Chairman Young Liu told CNBC he sees the machines as accelerators attached to CPUs and GPUs for hard NP-type problems, not general-purpose computers, and puts commercial viability at least two years out. One cost driver he flagged is cabling: a single cable built for the low-temperature requirements can cost over $1,000.
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<strong>Intel's 14A PDK 0.9 goes to outside customers, with PDK 1.0 due in Q1 2027 (3 minute read)</strong>
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Intel released 14A PDK 0.9 to outside customers, with PDK 1.0 planned for Q1 2027. A PDK is the set of design rules and transistor models chip designers build against, so 0.9 is where external designs can start taking shape. Intel's schedule still has risk production for its own products in the second half of 2027 and volume production in 2028, and it claims 14A is ahead of 18A on defect density and transistor performance at the same stage.
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Orbital Matter's Replicator-2 satellite 3D printed a half-meter rigid beam in orbit by extruding coils of resin cured with UV light, a first for a free-flying spacecraft. One of two printers meant to deploy a solar array failed, but the boom the other made did deploy the array. Boom length is limited only by onboard resin, and the company thinks 100 m is feasible. A 2028 mission targets a 5 kW array, then 100+ kW per wing by 2030.
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Agility goes public via SPAC at roughly $2.8 billion on $1.8 million of 2025 revenue. Its gross margin was -151%, since a Digit costs about $125,000 to build against a $75,000 target. Unitree is worth about $40 billion on $239 million of revenue and 5,500 humanoids sold, but its gross margin slipped to 54%, and humanoids' margin edge over its other products shrank to 6 points. Agility spends about 4.5x Unitree's R&D on 1/134th of its revenue.
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