Most Read – UK & Japan, Arm game, SpaceX IPO

And there’s also Arm developing a game called Neural Dawn, and Kioxia becoming the most valuable company in Japan with the memory boom.

As is customary, let’s process the posts in reverse order, as finds Google Analytics:

5. Extensive UK-Japan projects agreed
Sir Keir Starmer and Japanese PM Sanae Takaichi (pictured) announce the “UK-Japan Frontier Technology Partnership” and specify a number of projects. The UK is the only European country to participate in the Japan-led Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership trade pact, and shares similar views with Japan on economic policy, technology investment and security.

4. SpaceX hits $2trn
SpaceX completes a successful IPO on Friday which valued the company at $2.1 trillion. The shares were issued at $135 and ended the day at $161. At the moment the shares went past $150 on the Nasdaq Elon Musk became the first trillionaire with his stake in SpaceX worth $690 billion and his stake in Tesla worth $280 billion. At $2 trillion SpaceX is the sixth most valuable US company.

3. Integration route for 2D-material based nFETs and pFETs
Imec, ASML and TSMC have come up with a novel, robust and scalable 300mm integration route for 2D-material based n and pFETs. For the first time, scaled nFETs (implementing MoS2 as the channel material) and pFETs (either WS2 or WSe2-based) with 50nm contacted poly pitch (CPP) could be demonstrated, with good current-voltage characteristics. These results represent a crucial step in the lab-to-fab transition of 2D-material based transistors.

2. Arm produces game to show off neural technology
Arm develops a game called Neural Dawn for Android devices to show off the capabilities of Arm Neural Technology in Arm Mali GPUs coming to Arm CSS for mobile later this year. Developed with Sumo Digital, Neural Dawn is the world’s first mobile game to use Unreal Engine MegaLights claiming to demonstrate desktop-class visuals on mobile while maintaining battery life. It is set for release later in 2026.

1. Kioxia becomes the most valuable company in Japan
Kioxia becomes the most valuable company in Japan thanks to the memory boom. Last Friday Kioxia’s market cap hit $275 billion pushing it past Toyota to become the No.1 publicly quoted Japanese company. In May, Kioxia forecast a $5.5 billion Q2 profit – a 48x jump y-o-y. For its FY to the end of March Kioxia had revenue up 37% y-o-y at $14.5 billion for a net profit of $3.5 billion– double last year’s – and an operating profit up 92.7% to $5.2 billion.