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The Pennsylvania Startup Betting That Silicon Still Has Room to Run
Everyone said the next leap in power electronics had to come from exotic materials. iDEAL Semiconductor bet it could wring more out of plain silicon - and now its chips are shipping from a Minnesota fab.
The Company That Makes Metal Without Melting It
A Cambridge startup spun out of MIT skips the furnace entirely - smashing metal powders together instead of melting them - and says the result is a molybdenum alloy three times stronger than what the market sells today.
The 750-Acre Bet: How a Chinese Owner Talked Americans Into Building Washers in Kentucky Again
General Electric sold its appliance business to a Chinese buyer and expected quiet decline. Instead, Haier handed the keys to the people running the machines - and GE Appliances started pouring billions back into Kentucky.
MW Components
The components are tiny, the catalog is sprawling, and the consequences of a bad part can be enormous. After a $950 million sale, MW Components is betting that three sharper businesses can make its industrial roll-up easier to run - and easier for engineers to buy from.
Sustainment
Sustainment is an Austin-based public benefit corporation building an AI-native software platform for industrial sourcing, procurement, and supplier management. Founded in 2020 by military veterans and technology executives, it helps commercial OEMs, contract manufacturers, and Department of Defense teams find suppliers, run RFQs, manage purchase orders, and track supplier performance - with the broader mission of strengthening a resilient, domestic U.S. manufacturing base.
Swift Solar
Swift Solar is a San Carlos, California startup building perovskite tandem solar cells that aim to beat silicon on both efficiency and cost. Spun out of Stanford, MIT, Oxford and NREL in 2017, the company is now scaling toward gigawatt manufacturing in the United States after a $27M Series A and the 2026 acquisition of Meyer Burger's HJT manufacturing assets and patents.