
After three decades across the chip industry, the VORAGO CEO is betting that the next computing frontier belongs to machines that cannot reboot, phone home or politely ask the universe for better conditions.

The Ibeos founder built the unglamorous electronics that keep ambitious spacecraft useful. An Air Force research program, a 40-watt space computer and a 2026 acquisition reveal his practical theory of innovation: listen closely, shrink the hardware and earn the right to fly.
The Virginia spacecraft supplier spent 13 years turning radiation-tolerant power, batteries and computers into configurable products. Its March 2026 sale to Trident shows what happens when a small engineering shop makes the least glamorous parts of a satellite easier to buy.

Zero-Error Systems (ZES) is a Singapore deeptech semiconductor company and Nanyang Technological University spin-off that builds radiation-hardened integrated circuits, radiation-tolerant system-on-modules, and irradiation testing services. Its patented radiation-hardened-by-design technology protects low-cost commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) electronics from radiation effects such as single-event latchup, letting satellite and space-system makers achieve space-grade power reliability and data integrity at a fraction of traditional rad-hard cost.
VORAGO Technologies is an Austin, Texas fabless semiconductor company that designs radiation-hardened and extreme-temperature microcontrollers and microprocessors for aerospace, defense and industrial systems. Its patented HARDSIL process hardens standard commercial silicon against radiation and heat using conventional high-volume manufacturing, letting spacecraft, satellites and downhole tools run Arm Cortex-based compute in environments that would destroy ordinary chips.