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Photonics became strategic almost overnight
Optical interconnect is what unlocks bandwidth inside an AI data center, which turned a quiet engineering discipline into one of the hottest corners of hardware. We have been working with this community since long before that happened, from the incumbents to the startups now racing them.
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The longest-horizon business in technology
A fab takes years and billions before it makes a single sellable wafer, and every gain in node, packaging, and power electronics traces back to a materials breakthrough someone had to make manufacturable first. The reshoring push has every new project chasing the same handful of people who have run that gauntlet, and we have placed across IDMs, equipment makers, and the materials companies behind them since the firm's early days.
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HBM moved to the center of the AI stack
High-bandwidth memory is now one of the products that decides whether an AI system ships on time, and the people who can run it hold device physics, fab economics, and the hyperscaler buyer in one head. That combination is rare, and it is one we have spent years mapping.
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Demand is no longer the hard part
There is more appetite for capacity than the industry can build, and increasingly the gate is power, not land or chips. So the constraint has shifted to the operators who can site, energize, and stand up facilities on AI's timeline. We work across the builders, the colocation platforms, and the sponsors behind them.
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The silicon foundation of modern tech infrastructure.
Compute, power, and analog chips form the core of every hardware stack. As a specialized chip executive search firm, ON Partners maps and places technical chip leaders who design, scale, and commercialize complex silicon architectures for fabless design firms, IDMs, and foundry platforms.
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5G, RF, and the spectrum everything runs on
RF is some of the most specialized engineering in hardware, and it spans handsets, infrastructure, defense, and IoT, so the right leader for one corner is often wrong for the next. Sorting that out is most of the job, and it is the part we are good at.
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Nvidia Names Jennifer Hartford as Vice President, Global Events & Experiences
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Avio USA Appoints New Senior Vice President, Engineering
Steven Dixon Named Senior Vice President, Engineering at Avio USA
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