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Nikon Spent a Century Perfecting Light. Now It Is Betting the Company on Everything Except Cameras.
The camera brand your grandparents trusted now etches microchips, prints jet parts in metal, and photographs living cells. In 2026 that pivot is running at a loss - and Nikon says that is the point.
The Lens Company That Refuses to Leave One Town in Japan
Sigma makes every lens it sells in one snowy Japanese town, sells them for a fraction of the big brands, and just carved a camera out of a solid block of aluminum. Here is how the underdog of optics built a loyal following from a warehouse on Long Island.
Forty Outdoor Brands, One Dragonfly, and a $1.125 Billion Bet on Craftsmanship
Fox Racing, CamelBak, Bushnell, Simms - Revelyst is the maker collective quietly running the gear behind your weekend. Here is how a Vista Outdoor spinoff became a $1.125 billion private-equity prize, and what it is building next.
Sportsman's Warehouse
How a single Utah outfitter turned camo, cartridges and reloading powder into a $1.2 billion business - and why its edge is the stuff Amazon can't ship.
Marvell Technology
Marvell Technology is a Santa Clara-based fabless semiconductor company that designs the chips underpinning modern data infrastructure. Founded in 1995, it has pivoted under CEO Matt Murphy from consumer and mobile silicon into custom AI accelerators (XPUs), electro-optics, high-speed Ethernet switching, DSPs and storage controllers. Its parts move data inside and between the hyperscale data centers run by companies like Amazon, Microsoft and Alphabet, making it one of the key merchant and custom silicon suppliers powering the AI buildout.
Brelyon
Brelyon is an MIT Media Lab spin-out building headset-free immersive displays. Its Ultra Reality monitors use patented wavefront and light-field engineering to project a curved, multi-focal virtual image up to 122 inches with a ~110-degree field of view from a desktop-sized frame, giving users the depth and scale of VR without a headset. Brelyon targets simulation and training, control centers, teleoperations, enterprise visualization and high-end gaming.