Satcom terminals have a chip problem.
That is what I read between the lines when our €15M Series A was covered by four very different audiences:
🛰️ Satellite media: Satellite Evolution, GroundStation, Space Insider
📡 Telecom media: Light Reading, Atomic Mobile
🔬 Chip media: Bits&Chips, New Electronics, Evertiq
💼 Business and innovation media: De Tijd, IO+, EU-Startups
A few years ago, these communities rarely read the same news. Today they share the same question: how do we put satellite connectivity into every vehicle, home and device?
The satellites are out there, in orbit. Launch costs have collapsed. The bottleneck has moved to the ground, to the terminal. A flat-panel terminal is mostly chips: hundreds of beamforming channels that today are too expensive and too power-hungry for the mass market.
That is a semiconductor problem. So it needs a semiconductor answer.
Our answer at TUSK IC: Ka-band beamformers in standard CMOS. The same high-volume processes that put a radio in every phone, now applied to LEO/MEO terminals.
Thank you to every editor who picked up the story!