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Bernd Lehnhardt

Bernd Lehnhardt

CEO of VORAGO Technologies, semiconductor executive with 30+ years of experience in radiation-hardened and extreme-temperature IC components for aerospace and defense applications.

May 29, 2026

4:43
And as a follow-up to that, can you also give us some perspective on, you know, what kind of industry factors or trends around, you know, the space market and, and what's happening in the space market right now drove Virago to develop and introduce these microcontrollers designed specifically for low Earth orbit?
5:04
Yeah.
5:04
So going back a little bit, about ten years ago, when you, when we started really Virago, and we built our first product portfolio for space-based systems, if you look at that point in time, the market really didn't have any programmable-microcontroller solutions in a space like this.
5:22
A lot of the subsystems were pretty much what I would call a little bit more unintelligent and unflexible.
5:29
So basically providing these systems in a, in a satellite, um, with enough intelligence to really be future-proof.
5:36
And I compare this a tiny little bit how the automotive industry went through their cycles, and I was very, um, blessed to be part of that, um, many years ago.
5:47
Um, the original part of, uh, of a electronics in the car was very a small piece of the electronics and basically tied to engine management.
9:45
Can you talk about how you built radiation tolerance into the VA4 family, and what challenges do radiation prevent, present specifically to microcontrollers?

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