SECOND✦SPARK
We break down emerging technologies to show you what innovation will be transforming next.
One technology. One story. Every week — deep dives for business, science, and finance professionals who want the mechanism, not the hype.
Episodes
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SiTime (SITM): The Quartz Century Ends on Silicon Time
Sometime around 2003, a serial founder named Kurt Petersen sat in a boardroom at Robert Bosch in Stuttgart and asked to license a process the company's own researchers had…
Notes & transcript →Episode 2
Hexcel (HXL): The Composites Gold Rush
In 1946, in a basement near San Francisco, two engineers started gluing thin sheets into hexagonal cells — panels that were nearly all air, but stiff enough to hold an airplane…
Notes & transcript →Episode 1
SanDisk (SNDK): From Bits to High Bandwidth Flash
A commodity manufacturer claims it has re-engineered its own cycle — contracts instead of spot prices, floors instead of crashes.
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