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Arduino
Arduino didn’t democratise hardware — it outsourced the hard parts to hobbyists.
Education
What a society decides the next lot needs to know.
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Raspberry Pi
A $35 board built to fix Cambridge’s admissions crisis became the world’s most widely deployed open-hardware computer—not because it was perfect, but because it was just enough.
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5G
5G delivers real architectural upgrades—but only where operators invest in standalone cores, mid-band spectrum, and dense backhaul. Everywhere else, it’s 4G with a new logo.
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Amazon Web Services
AWS did not invent the cloud—it repackaged Amazon’s internal automation as a product, and won by shipping first, not by being smarter.
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Analog Devices
Precision signal conversion is not magic — it’s Analog Devices’ 1965 bet that the world would need chips that don’t lie about voltage.
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Applied Materials
Applied Materials isn’t an invention — it’s the infrastructure that made integrated fabrication inevitable.