Sorry I thought the connection was obvious. Perhaps only in my own mind.
The article demonstrates that alloy development continues to make breakthroughs and improvements with massive gains over existing alloys and in ways that are increasingly easy to develop and manufacture.
To my mind that is a threat to Liquidmetal. Not that this particular alloy is a threat, but the speed up in development and manufacture of designer alloys.
Liquidmetal has the Maze going for it - a mass production engine of agreements and machines. That’s certainly a competitive advantage.
And yet, as Apple has shown over and over again, when they need a new material for a new product they—thus far—have always developed a designer alloy rather than change horses midstream.
It’s not a world changing article, but it demonstrates to me something of the behind the scenes in material development.
Or not. It’s just data.
For the haters, yes I know NASA has done this for a long time, yes they’re a niche player with niche needs, yes they wouldn’t use Liquidmetal for this application, yes people have been developing alloys for ever, etc etc. Their comment that it’s faster than ever to do so and easier than ever to do so is my point. Sorry I didn’t make that clearer from the start.
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