May. 12 at 10:08 PM
$NNDM why Hensoldt or L3Harris never bought the AME business unit will remain a mystery. Together with Hensoldt, Nano ran the JAMES standardization body.
Then you also had Voltera from Italy that has a desktop model to print 3D PCBs. Why didn't they buy it?
It seems the AME leg was never a solution to a non-existent problem. The idea was nice but it never solved the one thing it could solve: space reduction. I always envisioned AME could be used to fill areas like wearables, watches, frames of glasses but it seems they never need the AME tech for that.
Now, with photonic chips on the horizon the need for MOSFets may also be severely reduced at some point and with that the need for heatsinks.
Perhaps the window of opportunity for AME was way too small? They lost focus along the way because of activist pressure. The search for revenue and profitability at all cost.
