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Hardware, Electronics & Materials

Chips, sensors, batteries and advanced materials are the physical layer under every digital product, and the most exposed. We support designers, fabs, OEMs and materials labs on supply-chain resilience, raw-material sourcing, product and process engineering, and the recyclability and eco-design rules that are now law rather than ambition.

Definition

Semiconductors run anything with a plug or a battery, and demand for chips, sensors and advanced cells keeps climbing. This practice covers chip designers and fabs, consumer-electronics OEMs, industrial-sensor makers, battery and energy-storage companies, photonics startups and materials labs working on graphene, wide-bandgap semiconductors and bio-composites.

Supply-chain fragility and tighter sustainability rules are forcing a rethink of where raw materials come from and what happens at end of life, at the same time as customers ask for more performance on less power. Hardware is the physical layer under everything digital. Cleaner, smarter components today set the pace at which mobility, healthcare and the rest can scale.