Research Section Changelog
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  • 2026-06-29: Created Software Philosophy section + Unix Philosophy — origins at Bell Labs 1969–1978; McIlroy/Thompson/Ritchie; 17 Raymond rules; GNU/Linux influence; pro/con including Unix security model (ambient authority, confused deputy, pledge/unveil); MIT vs New Jersey divide; BSD/AT&T divergence; applications beyond software (Conway’s Law, MVP, QWERTY/VHS, Android/iOS, Jacobs urbanism with US examples); general case (Scott’s metis/high modernism, Alexander pattern language, Hayek spontaneous order, Raymond’s Cathedral and Bazaar, Illich convivial tools).
  • 2026-06-29: Created LFAM section + 5 entries: Thermwood LSAM (Boeing 777X tooling, AFRL LCRT, Bell blade mold); Ingersoll MasterPrint (450 m³, UMaine wind blade tooling, MasterPrint Deployable); AML3D (WAAM, Virginia-class Cu-Ni in 5 wks vs 17 mo, 1,600 Navy components by 2030); Caracol AM ($40M Series B, Heron AM robotic, ESA AIMIS); CEAD (Flexbot, continuous fiber, Maritime Application Center).
  • 2026-06-29: Created Naval Drones / ASVs section + 3 entries: Saronic Technologies (Corsair/Mirage/Marauder ASVs, $9.25B valuation, $392M Navy contract, MUSV Marketplace, Echelon software); HavocAI ($185M raised, 30+ DoD vessels, Hanwha 200-ft ASV partnership, GPS-denied air-sea demo); Anduril ASV (HD Hyundai partnership, MASC candidate, Seattle shipyard). Created Undersea Drones / AUVs section + 3 entries: Anduril Undersea (Ghost Shark XLUUV ADF delivery Nov 2025, Dive-XL US Navy XLUUV selection Mar 2026, Copperhead-100M/500M munitions); L3Harris Iver4 (TTLR torpedo-tube AUV launch/recovery, DIU contract Mar 2026); Lockheed Lamprey (hull-attaching hydrogen AUV, 14-month internal dev, Feb 2026). Updated Robotics index with both new subsections.
  • 2026-06-26: Created ROS 2 Overview — DDS transport, QoS, ros2_control, micro-ROS, Nav2/MoveIt2, hardware survey, best practices.
  • 2026-06-23: Created ROS 2 Ecosystem section + 7 entries: PickNik Robotics, Robotis, Synapticon, Zivid, Stereolabs, Force-Torque Sensors subsection, Bota Systems.
  • 2026-06-19: Added Source Verification Rules to research steering doc (_index.md) — 6 rules: fetch-before-write, no bare numbers without source, leadership/location/funding claims require verified sources.
  • 2026-06-19: Created 3 robotics subsections + 5 entries: Software & Integration (SVT Robotics, Robust AI, Vecna Robotics); Industrial Robots (Universal Robots); AMR & Logistics (6 River Systems).
  • 2026-06-18: Added Cincinnati, OH relocation profile (20th city); updated city-comparison.md and relocation index.
  • 2026-06-17: Created city-comparison.md — radar chart comparison of all 19 US profiles on Safety, Diversity, Affordability; 4 regional clusters with Mermaid charts.
  • 2026-06-17: Added Event Venues, Sports Teams, Motorsports, and Shooting Ranges subsections to all 19 US city profiles. See Relocation section for individual city details.
  • 2026-06-17: Added Comedy Clubs, Catholic Churches, Maker Spaces, Seasonal Recreation, Festivals, and Tourism subsections to all 12 remaining US city profiles (Charleston SC + 11 others). See Relocation section for details.
  • 2026-06-16: Added Local Flavor sections (cat cafes, coffee, bookstores, consignment, hospitals, crime) to all 20 city profiles. See Relocation section for individual city details.
  • 2026-06-16: Added Panama City, Panama — first international relocation entry; territorial tax, Pensionado/Friendly Nations visas, USD economy, Johns Hopkins-affiliated hospital, restrictive gun laws, FATCA friction.
  • 2026-06-16: Added Charleston, SC relocation profile — Boeing 787, Joint Base Charleston, Port of Charleston (8th largest US), Volvo EV plant; tidal flood risk; Google $9B data center.
  • 2026-06-16: Added 6 relocation profiles: Greenville-Spartanburg, Savannah, Chattanooga, Huntsville, Tampa, Columbus.
  • 2026-06-16: Added 5 relocation profiles: Seattle, Herndon/NoVA, Mobile, New Orleans, Miami.
  • 2026-06-15: Added Firearms & Self-Defense Laws section to all 7 relocation profiles. Spectrum: TX (most permissive) → TN → NC → NM → CO (most restrictive; SB25-003 semi-auto ban effective Aug 2026).
  • 2026-06-15: Created 4 relocation profiles: Charlotte, NC; Nashville, TN; San Antonio, TX; El Paso, TX.
  • 2026-06-15: Created Relocation Research section + 3 profiles: Albuquerque, NM; Denver, CO; Austin, TX.
  • 2026-06-11: Created LoRA Adapter Versioning and Rollback — base/adapter directory separation; training run metadata schema; multi-version Ollama registration; rollback procedure; merge+quantize workflow; what to keep vs. delete.
  • 2026-06-11: Created Context Window Management — token counting in the agentic loop; targeted command selection; output truncation with header/footer preservation; two-pass summarization; sliding window with progress injection; Apple Silicon KV cache memory and num_ctx guidance by hardware tier.
  • 2026-06-11: Created Synthetic Data Generation — generation architecture (large model generates, small model trains); generation prompt structure per competency; common generation failures (hallucinated options, simplified show output, scope creep to Cisco); domain expert review cost table (~125 hours for 10K examples); deduplication with sentence embeddings.
  • 2026-06-11: Created System Prompt Engineering — four components of a specialist system prompt (role, platform scope, constraints, output format); mandatory training-inference consistency; few-shot examples in the system prompt; common failure modes and fixes; version control pairing system prompt with adapter and training data.
  • 2026-06-11: Created Evaluating a Fine-Tuned Model — eval set construction (build before training, stratify by competency, include examples not used to write training data); exact-match, command-presence, and LLM-judge scoring; general capability regression checks; automated eval pipeline at temperature 0; acceptable performance thresholds by task type; iteration tracking table.
  • 2026-06-10: Created Temperature and Sampling — logit scaling mechanism (logits / T before softmax); effect at T=0.1 through T=2.0 with network CLI example; temperature and reasoning models (thinking-phase vs. final-answer); top-p nucleus sampling and top-k; greedy decoding pitfalls; Ollama Modelfile settings for config generation vs. troubleshooting.
  • 2026-06-10: Updated LoRA and QLoRA — added dense vs. MoE fine-tuning section: routing problem, uneven adapter updates, expert collapse, 4 practical strategies, target module names for Mixtral/Llama 4/Qwen3, memory table, and when MoE fine-tuning is worth pursuing.
  • 2026-06-10: Created Model Internals: Weights, MoE, and Inference — named tensor structure; KV cache mechanics; MoE routing (sparse, fine-grained, shared experts); GGUF quantization table; prefill vs. decode phases; MoE serving challenges; full query trace.
  • 2026-06-10: Created Config Generation vs. Troubleshooting — compiler vs. detective framing; parameterized interaction pattern for VPN/PSK prompting; separate LoRA adapter architecture; training data requirements table.
  • 2026-06-10: Created RAG vs. Fine-Tuning — skills vs. facts framing; decision matrix; combined architecture with ChromaDB for device-config retrieval alongside fine-tuned network expert model.
  • 2026-06-10: Updated Base Models for Fine-Tuning — refreshed all 6 families to mid-2026: Llama 4 Scout/Maverick (MoE, Apr 2025), Mistral Small 4 + Ministral 14B (Dec 2025–Mar 2026), Gemma 4 31B Apache 2.0 (Apr 2026), Phi-4-reasoning (May 2025), Qwen3/3.5 (Apr 2025–Feb 2026), DeepSeek V3.1/V4/R1 distills (2025–Apr 2026); full release history and selection guide per tier.
  • 2026-06-10: Created Local LLM Fine-Tuning section + 11 entries: LLM Pretraining (transformer arch; next-token prediction; base model mechanics), Fine-Tuning Mechanics (SFT; domain adaptation; catastrophic forgetting), LoRA and QLoRA (rank adapters; 4-bit quantization; Mac Mini viable), Dataset Formats (Alpaca/ShareGPT/ChatML; multi-turn preferred), Network Engineering Data (5 competency areas; 10K–19K examples; Juniper/Cisco separate), Apple Silicon (MLX; M4 Max 128GB; 6–10hr for 10K examples), Cloud GPU (A100 $1.50/hr; 1.5–2.5hr; $3–10 total), Juniper Expert (Llama 3.1 8B; JunOS full product line; 16K examples), Cisco Expert (IOS-XE/NX-OS/ASA; multi-OS tagging; 20K examples), Edge Deployment (Ollama; Netmiko SSH; agentic command loop; human-in-loop).
  • 2026-06-07: Created AI Accelerators section + 6 entries: AMD Instinct Overview (CDNA 1–5 roadmap; ~5–7% AI GPU share; $5B+ 2024 revenue), MI300 Series (CDNA 3; 192 GB HBM3; fastest AMD ramp ever), MI350 Series (CDNA 4; 288 GB HBM3e; MXFP4; shipping 2H 2025), MI400 & Helios (CDNA 5; 72 GPUs; 31 TB HBM4; 2.9 ExaFLOPS FP4; H2 2026), ROCm (open-source CUDA alternative; HIP compat layer; ROCm 7), Pensando Pollara (400G UltraEthernet AI NIC; scale-out fabric for Instinct clusters).
  • 2026-06-07: Updated Connector Supply Chain — added Investability section: Stäubli/Danfoss/CEJN private (no direct route); PH/DOV indirect public plays; VRT pure-play infrastructure; ASTK small-cap with Chinese acquisition overhang (Suzhou Chunqiu DKK 540M offer Nov 2025).
  • 2026-06-07: Created Liquid Cooling Interconnects + Connector Supply Chain — UQD/UQDB/BMQC/LQC/MQD families; OCP ORv3 blind-mate spec; 5 Western vendors ~63–73% share; demand outpacing qualified supply through 2026.
  • 2026-06-06: Created Utah datacenter opposition — Stratos Project (O’Leary Digital, 40,000 acres → 10,000 acres, 9 GW power, Box Elder County); MIDA governance controversy (unelected body, dual-role legislators); constitutional lawsuit filed June 4 2026 (Alliance for a Better Utah v. MIDA); O’Leary claims of CCP-linked foreign funding of opposition via Arabella Advisors/Singham network; named organizations (Alliance for a Better Utah, Elevate Strategies) denied claims; Bitcoin Policy Institute May 2026 report documents three foreign-influence vectors (CCP state media, Singham network, foreign-billionaire dark money) converging on anti-datacenter campaign. Updated datacenter-opposition index — added Stratos Project to tracker; added Utah to state breakdown; added extended foreign-influence claims and research section under Funding Networks.
  • 2026-06-05: Created Allen Control Systems — Austin TX; Bullfrog autonomous weapon station (M240/M2/M230/M134 variants); AI/EO/IR/laser rangefinder; ~$10/kill claimed; SOCOM maritime contract Sept 2025; Army AAL $1.5M+ Dec 2025; $30M Series A Mar 2025; $200M Series B $2.2B valuation Jun 2026; 57k sqft Austin facility; South Korea and UAE customers; effective against fiber-optic/RF-dark threats (physical defeat not RF-dependent).
  • 2026-06-05: Created Ukraine Lessons Learned — battlefield drone countermeasures 2024–2026; interceptor drones (80% intercept rate, 100K produced 2025), rotating barbed wire fiber-optic cable cutters (Ukraine field expedient Oct 2025), RF jamming effectiveness collapse vs. fiber-optic/autonomous threats, directed-energy weapons (not yet operationally deployed), physical barrier effectiveness, SAM economic unsustainability. Updated Threat Taxonomy fiber-optic FPV entry with rotating barbed wire countermeasure detail.
  • 2026-06-05: Created drone-detection session 3 — 4 entries: Deployment Architecture (fixed-site design pattern; sensor geometry, integration pipeline, power/networking, maintenance), Sentrycs (Israeli CoRF; $200M Ondas acq Nov 2025; Horizon AI engine; Scout portable 2026), [Skydio C-UAS](/research/drone-detection/hardware/skydio-cuas/) (X10/X10D; drone-in-a-box; $4.4B Series F; Army $52M; Blue UAS), [Swarm Detection](/research/drone-detection/detection-methods/swarm-detection/) (track saturation; RF noise; ELTA/IAI swarm solutions; $2.36B market 2025).
  • 2026-06-05: Created drone-detection session 2 — 4 entries: Regulatory Framework (detect-only for private; SAFER SKIES SLTT interdiction pathway; CISA Be Air Aware), Threat Taxonomy (5 categories; fiber-optic FPV defeats all RF countermeasures), Acoustic ML Pipeline (RPi + MEMS + MFCC; Wang 2025 32-class dataset; ~$150 BOM), [AeroDefense AirWarden](/research/drone-detection/hardware/aerodefense-airwarden/) (RF spectrum sensing; detects drone + pilot; correctional/CI focus; from $9,987/yr).
  • 2026-06-05: Created Drone Detection section + 16 entries: Micro-Doppler Radar (primary method; 89–98% bird discrimination; AI spectrogram classification), RF/Remote ID (FAA compliant drones only; zero coverage fiber-optic/autonomous), Acoustic Detection (100–500m; works on RF-dark drones), Optical/Thermal (only modality for fiber-optic threats), Multi-Sensor Fusion, OpenDroneID, DJI DroneID Decoder (GNU Radio/SDR; 1.5–3.7km), Dedrone/Axon, DroneShield (DRO:ASX), Fortem Technologies (Lockheed $25M Apr 2026), Aaronia AARTOS (RF 14km), Robin Radar IRIS (3D micro-Doppler), D-Fend EnforceAir (cyber-takeover; federal-only), Marduk Piraya (passive EO; Siil 2025 2km), DroneHunter F700 (net-capture; 5k+ captures; Ukraine), Rafael Hunter Eagle (VTOL; no explosive; 2026 demo).
  • 2026-06-04: Created Meta Rapid Deployment Structures — fabric tent GPU clusters; 5 × 125k sqft tents at New Albany OH; halved build time; paired with Williams 400 MW BTM gas. Created Williams Companies BTM — pipeline operator turned BTM power developer; Socrates 400 MW Ohio (Meta, 10-yr deal); $5.1B committed; 6 GW target by 2027.
  • 2026-06-02: Created Quantum Key Distribution section + zerothird — Austrian eQKD startup; BBM92 entanglement-based, 350 km claimed; Erste Group/A1 Telekom pilot; VERBUND X Ventures Seed+; IQOQI Vienna founders.
  • 2026-05-11: Created Georgia datacenter opposition — Project Sail (Prologis/Atlas, 829 acres, ~900 MW, $17B, Coweta County); 3–2 commission approval April 11 2026; lobbyist access scandal (DeSmog investigation); Citizens for Rural Coweta (8,000+ signatures, PAC formation); May 2026 lawsuit to void rezoning; Ashley Park–Wansley 500 kV transmission line (300+ parcels, eminent domain risk). Created infrastructure overspill issue — structural analysis of eminent domain and property displacement from datacenter-serving transmission lines; case studies: Maryland Piedmont Reliability Project, Virginia Dominion loop, NextEra Midatlantic Resiliency Link (PA→VA), Georgia Ashley Park–Wansley; legislative responses; organizing strategy implications. Updated datacenter-opposition index — added Project Sail to project tracker; added Georgia to state breakdown; added infrastructure overspill as new key theme and key takeaway.
  • 2026-05-05: Created Hitachi Energy — world’s largest transformer manufacturer; $43B backlog (3× three years ago); 40-month large-unit lead times; $6B capacity investment; CEO warned sector “overwhelmed” by datacenter + energy transition demand; DPA §303 Presidential Determination (Apr 20 2026) a direct policy catalyst. Updated power-infrastructure index — added DPA grid determination context, updated transformer lead times from 2–3 years to 24–40 months, added Hitachi Energy (HPS.A) and updated Eaton (ETN) to incumbents table. Updated GE Vernova aeroderivative entry — added DPA §303 determination to Q1 2026 financial snapshot.
  • 2026-04-30: Updated Virginia datacenter opposition — Added Compass Datacenters withdrawal from PW Digital Gateway (Apr 30); updated Contested Projects table status to Dead; Brookfield-backed Compass cited legal defeats, stricter regulations, and collapsed political support; QTS status uncertain.
  • 2026-04-30: Created Spectrolab + 2 entries: Azur Space (German GaAs space solar, 5N Plus subsidiary, 32% 4G32C), SolAero Technologies (Rocket Lab subsidiary, 1,100+ spacecraft, Ingenuity Mars helicopter).
  • 2026-04-29: Created Orbital Compute: First-Principles Economics — First-principles analysis of GPU energy budgets in LEO (solar irradiance, Stefan-Boltzmann thermal rejection, GPU power caps), satellite build cost model (bus + payload + I&T), launch cost table (Falcon 9 through Starship projections), per-GPU total deployed cost by scenario, technology gap assessment (ISLs for training, HBM radiation fragility, solar array specific power, satellite manufacturing scale, on-orbit hardware aging), and 10-year cost trajectory through 2036.

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  • 2026-04-29: Created Orbital Compute subsection + 5 entries: Google Project Suncatcher (TPU satellites, Planet Labs 2027 prototype), Starcloud (H100 in orbit Nov 2025; $170M Series A unicorn), [SpaceX Orbital](/research/datacenters/orbital-compute/spacex-orbital-compute/) (1M-sat FCC filing; Terafab D3 chips), [Aetherflux](/research/datacenters/orbital-compute/aetherflux/) ($50M, Galactic Brain, Q1 2027), Kepler Communications (largest orbital cluster 40 Orin/10 sats), Lonestar Data Holdings (lunar DR storage, Athena mission Feb 2026).
  • 2026-04-28: Added Zydeco Development / Project Hutto (70 MW, withdrawn Apr 17 2026) to Texas datacenter opposition — new case study section, updated contested projects table, updated section index tracker.
  • 2026-04-28: Aligned 6 behind-meter-power entries to steering: Caterpillar/Solar Turbines, Oklo BTM, Radiant Nuclear, Siemens Energy BTM, TerraPower BTM, USNC/NANO KRONOS MMR — added Summary, Key Facts, Notable Developments, Claim Verification to each; added steering blocks; expanded source_urls to 4–5 per entry.
  • 2026-04-28: Restructured Lithium Metal Batteries — added Summary, Key Facts, Notable Developments (12 milestones 2025–2026), Key Companies & Researchers, Claim Verification, and Risks & Uncertainties sections; updated stale_after_days to 90; expanded source URLs to 8.
  • 2026-04-28: Expanded Wärtsilä — added BESS (Quantum3, 19+ GWh deployed, Eraring 3.1 GWh AU), marine propulsion (cruise, container, island grids), Caribbean projects (USVI, Bahamas, BVI, Bonaire, Cayman), and TAM sizing (marine ~$25.6B; stationary recip ~$64-79B).
  • 2026-04-25: Created VITA 48 REDI thermal standards + 5 entries: GMS (X7 RAPTOR 1"×4" RuggedCool +75°C <$10K), Annapolis Micro Systems (WILD100 SOSA VPX; WC34D0 VITA 48.4 LFT), Core Systems (ATMOS stackable nodes; +60°C GPU), LCR Embedded Systems (35yr defense chassis integrator; open-source VITA 46.11 manager), 7Starlake LFT ATR (7SL-3500 500W closed-loop VITA 48.4). Updated half-rack overview with power/ruggedization specs; rugged-edge-compute index supply chain liquid cooling flag.
  • 2026-04-25: Created MicroTCA standard overview + 3 entries: VadaTech (Henderson NV; MCH+chassis+AMC; MTCA.0/1/3/4), N.A.T. GmbH (Hennef DE; NAT-MCH-G4; CERN/DESY/PSI), MicroTCA in 5G RAN (O-RAN DU; PTP/SyncE; 100 GbE fronthaul).
  • 2026-04-25: Created half-rack embedded compute form factor + 4 platform entries: Neousys SEMIL-1300 (2U fanless IP67, -40°C), ASUS RUC-1000 (600W GPU 2U; half-rack fanless), Galleon XSR (3U NAS 80TB 100 Gbps US-owned), 7Starlake THOR200-U8-D (2.5U NAS 64TB Xeon D MIL-STD-810).
  • 2026-04-25: Created new edge-ai-accelerators subsection with entries for Hailo (Hailo-8 26 TOPS/2.5W M.2/PCIe, Hailo-15 TSMC 5nm, Raspberry Pi AI HAT+) and EdgeCortix (SAKURA-I/II CGRA architecture, 40+ TOPS, defense/ISR focus, Tokyo HQ). Created 5 new rugged/semi-industrial edge compute entries: Crystal Group (Cedar Rapids IA; RE4100 shipboard MIL-STD-901D, RE1900M vehicle-mount), Neousys Technology (Advantech subsidiary; SEMIL-2200/2200GC fanless GPU AI servers), Premio (JCO-6000-ORN/JCO-3000-ORN Jetson Orin; RCO + EDGEBoost modular I/O), ADLINK Technology (AXE/DLAP rugged GPU servers; SOSA-aligned OpenVPX; TWSE:6166), DFI (Taiwan industrial fanless computers + GPU AI systems). Updated rugged-edge-compute index overview and tracker table.
  • 2026-04-25: Created datacenter-opposition section — regulatory, NIMBY, and grid-impact controversies around datacenter expansion; linked entries for environmental justice advocates, case studies (Mesa AZ water fights, Oregon permitting freezes), and incumbent utility opposition to behind-meter SMR/renewables power models.
  • 2026-04-25: Created 4 missing BTM power company profiles for behind-meter-power section: TerraPower Natrium (345 MW SMR + molten-salt storage, Meta 2.76 GW contract), Radiant Kaleidos (1.2 MWe microreactor, Equinix 20-unit preorder), Caterpillar Solar Turbines (1–39 MW gas turbines, Vertiv partnership Nov 2025), Siemens Energy (SGT series 40–200 MW heavy-frame turbines, modular 500 MW plants with Eaton). Resolved 5 Hugo REF_NOT_FOUND errors in _index.md.
  • 2026-04-19: Created Google Quantum AI — Willow 105-qubit (2024); below-threshold error correction (partially verified, Nature); 2019 supremacy claim classically matched (Frontier ~6 sec); dual-modality expansion to neutral atoms (Mar 2026).
  • 2026-04-17: Created Bitcoin PQC — BIP-360 (P2MR soft fork, BTQ testnet Mar 2026) and BIP-361 (coin freeze, Lopp vs. Back debate); ~28–35% BTC supply in long-exposure quantum-vulnerable state; Falcon/FN-DSA primary algorithm candidate; 5–10 year migration timeline estimate.
  • 2026-04-17: Created Ethereum PQC — EIP-8141 frame transactions (CFI Hegota H2 2026); leanSig/leanXMSS for validator attestation aggregation; pq.ethereum.org devnets active (Mar 2026); Strawmap targets full L1 PQC by ~2029; ~90M ETH at quantum exposure.
  • 2026-04-17: Created Other Chains PQC — Algorand (Falcon live on mainnet Nov 2025, first PQC mainnet tx); Solana (ML-DSA testnet 3,000 TPS Dec 2025); Cardano (Project Nightstream, Google/Microsoft collaboration Feb 2026); QRL (purpose-built XMSS→ML-DSA; Testnet V2 Mar 2026); exchange and wallet readiness (Coinbase advisory board; Trezor Safe 7).
  • 2026-04-17: Updated Cryptocurrencies PQC index — Phase 2 now active; platform status summary table; Google March 2026 paper context.
  • 2026-04-17: Updated Networking PQC vendor survey — Added confirmed GA release versions: Fortinet FortiOS 7.6.1 (earliest GA), Palo Alto PAN-OS 12.1 Orion (Aug 2025, broadest coverage), Check Point Gaia R82 (API-only), Cisco IOS XE 26 (full-stack Apr 2026) + ASA 9.19/FTD roadmap; OpenSSL 3.5 (ML-KEM default TLS); strongSwan 6.0.0; WireGuard PSK workaround; Cloudflare One (Feb 2026); Nokia ANYsec/QKD distinction; draft-ietf-ipsecme-ikev2-mlkem-05 IANA gap noted.
  • 2026-04-17: Updated Networking PQC index — Vendor table updated with confirmed GA release versions; research status updated.
  • 2026-04-17: Updated Post-Quantum Encryption section index — Phase 2 marked in progress; research phases table expanded.
  • 2026-04-15: Created Lasertec — EUV mask inspection monopoly; TSE:6920; actinic inspection sole supplier; Japan export controls; FY2025 ¥251.5B revenue.
  • 2026-04-15: Created Semiconductors section and Fabrication Equipment subsection — supply chain table, public company index with TradingView widget, steering guide for equipment and export controls.
  • 2026-04-15: Created Post-Quantum Encryption section — Phase 1 (networking): Sitehop, Juniper, and multi-vendor survey; Phase 2 (crypto) placeholder; full steering document with NIST FIPS 203/204/205 background.
  • 2026-04-15: Created Sitehop — UK PQC networking startup; FPGA-accelerated ML-KEM IPsec; University of Bristol spin-out; claim verification: line-rate PQC partially verified, govt contracts unverified.
  • 2026-04-15: Created Juniper PQC Support — Juniper (now HPE division) IKEv2/IPsec PQC roadmap; Junos OS status; GA release unconfirmed from public sources.
  • 2026-04-14: Created D-Wave Quantum — quantum annealer (not gate-based); Advantage2 4,400+ qubits; 2025 Science supremacy claim actively disputed; $550M QCI acquisition for gate-model entry.
  • 2026-04-07: Created Rigetti — Rigetti Computing (NASDAQ: RGTI) superconducting QPU vendor; Ankaa-3 84-qubit system; Fab-1 in-house foundry; FY2024 revenue $10.8M; documented 2022 roadmap miss.
  • 2026-04-07: Created SkyWater Technology — U.S. DOD Trusted Foundry; pending $1.8B IonQ acquisition (shareholder vote May 8, 2026); FY2025 revenue $442.1M. Updated IonQ entry and section index.
  • 2026-04-07: Created PsiQuantum — silicon photonics FTQC startup; $2.32B raised; DARPA QBI US2QC final phase selected; Victor Peng Interim CEO (Feb 2026).
  • 2026-04-06: Created IBM Quantum — superconducting QPU; qLDPC error correction progress; 2029/2033 FTQC roadmap; Qiskit cloud platform.
  • 2026-04-05: Created quantum-computing section with initial entries: IonQ, Quantinuum, Xanadu.
  • 2026-04-05: Created Xanadu — photonic QC; Borealis Nature 2022 advantage claim; Aurora 12-qubit system; March 2026 IPO (XNDU); $250M+ raised.
  • 2026-04-05: Created Quantinuum — trapped-ion; Helios 98 qubits, 99.921% 2Q fidelity; 94 logical qubits milestone; Honeywell ~54% ownership.
  • 2026-04-05: Created IonQ — trapped-ion; Forte/Tempo hardware; FY2024/2025 revenue from SEC filings; Skyloom/SkyWater acquisitions; all-founder departures.
  • 2026-04-04: Reorganized energy/batteries by value-chain layers; added cross-cutting insights and Q1 2026 updates across 12+ companies including tariff and supply chain impacts.
  • 2026-04-04: Created HyperStrong — top-5 global BESS integrator; added to Systems Integrators table.
  • 2026-04-04: Created CNTE — Contemporary Nebula Technology Energy battery entry.