What caught your eye? Wafer production, Future Horizons forecast, Space robotics

The Electronics Weekly team share some fingerposts – their picks of the week, in terms of announcements, developments, product releases, quotes, or anything else in the wide world of electronics, that caught their eye…

Caroline Hayes, editor
This Austin start-up is taking on the European photonics wafer companies with BaTIO2 coated 200nm wafer production – La Luce Cristallina produces 200mm BaTiO₃ wafers at Austin fab

David Manners, components editor
What caught my eye this week was a lone analyst going against the trend and predicting a semiconductor market downturn.

Alun Williams, web editor
What caught my eye was space-based robotics. Gitai USA has developed a satellite platform that that includes a robotic arm for on-orbit operations. And it’s been selected by the U.S. Space Force Space Systems Command for its Space-Based Interceptor (SBI) programme.