CEO, @SilaNanotech. Former EIR @SHV and Batteries @Tesla. Kiting is the perfect sport.
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My co-founder, Sila's CTO @Gleb_Yushin and I wrote a white paper on the battery developments we see coming in the next 10 years and the unfathomable scale Li-ion will reach over the next 30 years.
silanano.com/news/futureofen…
A thread on some of the highlights 👇
Material science innovation is hard but so satisfying. Very cool - congrats @Peter_J_Beck!
For the last three decades, conventional, multi-junction solar cells have largely relied on germanium wafers.
Today, Rocket Lab announced the production release of IMM Apex, our germanium-free new high-efficiency solar cell to reduce reliance on the supply-constrained critical metals.
Read more here. rocketlabcorp.com/updates/ro…
Batteries are a critical technology that Washington agrees on.
@bradplumer explains the importance of battery storage – and the $1.4B conditional loan commitment that the U.S. Department of War's Office of Strategic Capital has made to @SilaNanotech
nytimes.com/2026/08/24/clima…
Invent in America. Scale in America.
This is the way. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Replicate Chinese batteries or try to leapfrog them? In a dramatic move, the Trump administration appears to have elected to leapfrog, throwing a $1.4 billion at next-gen battery developer Sila Nanotechnologies. The Electric. theinformation.com/newslette…
Deeply humbled for the trust placed in us to deliver on a critical need for America. And proud of our team @SilaNanotech - we are ready to get to work! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
The @DeptofWar’s Office of Strategic Capital announced a $1.4 billion conditional loan commitment with Sila Nanotechnologies, Inc. (@SilaNanotech) to expand the domestic production of advanced battery materials.
This financing will support the expanded production of silicon-carbon battery anodes and the buildout of a domestic lithium-ion battery cell manufacturing facility. Ultimately, this loan commitment will strengthen supply chains for vital U.S. markets including energy storage, AI, and defense, while reducing reliance on foreign sources for critical battery components.
We have a choice to make about how America competes in batteries.
We can spend the next decade trying to replicate what already exists elsewhere - or we can lead with what comes next. Those aren't the same bet.
Silicon anodes are replacing graphite. The technology was invented here. It's being manufactured in Moses Lake, WA.
Industrial leadership has never come from catching up. Link to my piece👇
Gene Berdichevsky retweeted
The first time I heard the name "Homer Sarasohn," it was an ex-@Apple engineer telling me there should bronze statues of the guy in Apple Park, Cupertino.
"These ideas didn't come out of nowhere," the source said, when I asked about Apple's supply chain strategy. "It all goes back to what Homer taught in occupied Japan."
"Sorry, who?" I asked. I was intrigued but entirely baffled. Occupied Japan?
All I really learned in that conversation was the spelling of his name. I had told the source I was researching a feature on how Apple manufactures its products. He wished me well but said he wouldn't help. All he said was that Apple's supply chain strategy was important, ill-understood, and wildly counterintuitive. And that the key was this 29-year old engineer summoned to war-devastated Tokyo in 1946.
Finally, nearly three years later, I've written a double-feature for the @FinancialTimes telling Homer's story, connecting it with why a struggling Steve Jobs discovered the value of "process" in 1990, and then how these ideas helped shape Apple's supply chain strategy in the decade now remembered as the greatest corporate turnaround ever.
Why wasn't this in *Apple in China*, you might ask? Well, in my book pitch, I wanted it to be the opening chapter. But, structurally, that was difficult to pull off, and I worried that spending a few precious weeks studying 1940s Japan was a bad way to spend my book leave.
Once the book was published I kept reading the few obscure articles about Homer. I even got to check out the Library of Congress archives, which has the Japanese textbook he wrote for top corporate executives, black & white photos of Homer in Japan, and much else.
Then, two months ago, I realized Apple's 50th anniversary was probably the last chance I'd get. I wasn't sure anyone else would care, but the feedback has been great -- and part two really packs some oomph.
I'm thrilled to have it published. Hope you enjoy!
as.ft.com/r/9695f3b7-53fe-48…
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Gene Berdichevsky retweeted
Invent here. Scale here.
@CFR_org echoes what our CEO and Co-founder @SilaGene has long said: America has always led in innovation, but how we win is by scaling those innovations domestically. That’s exactly what we’re doing with Titan Silicon.
cfr.org/reports/leapfrogging…
Gene Berdichevsky retweeted
It's a battery world now. Batteries will be the #1 energy technology on planet Earth, surpassing even solar.
Gene Berdichevsky retweeted
Batteries are the second great technological revolution of our times.
It's a battery world now. Batteries will be the #1 energy technology on planet Earth, surpassing even solar.
Gene Berdichevsky retweeted
“Innovative technologies could be the salvation of the U.S. auto industry, but only if they are manufactured here.”
…“We have to break the cycle of ‘invent here, scale there,’” said Gene Berdichevsky (@SilaGene), chief executive of Sila Nanotechnologies.
(Great that @Apple veteran Doug Field is doing for @Ford what Apple isn’t).
Report from @JackEwingNYT
nytimes.com/2025/12/11/busin…
All engineers want to do is make the world a little better than we found it. We as a society make doing that way too hard.
Read this blog. We have got to get out of our own way so engineers can build, or we're destined for a stagnant world and a miserable future for our kids.
My lobbyists are very nervous about me posting this, but over-regulation is working against us all. The costs are astronomical to us all, but hidden.
So, I'm taking a risk, and sharing my stories from Charm and Revoy:
rein.pk/over-regulation-is-d…
Gene Berdichevsky retweeted
My lobbyists are very nervous about me posting this, but over-regulation is working against us all. The costs are astronomical to us all, but hidden.
So, I'm taking a risk, and sharing my stories from Charm and Revoy:
rein.pk/over-regulation-is-d…
This is exactly right. Batteries underpin our future industrial growth.
The cell picture is improving fast - Pana, LGES, Samsung, & Tesla all building gigafactories in the US.
@Mitra_Chem & @RedwoodMat will solve CAM.
@SilaNanotech will solve anodes.
The US will win 🇺🇸
Why are batteries a national security issue?
It is THE energy source for critical applications today and, even more importantly, tomorrow:
Cars
Data Center Batteries (ESS)
Military and defense drones
Robots
If we are to be a resilient nation that is in control of our own destiny in all political/economic/military weather conditions, we will need domestic battery companies to do the following three things:
1. Make Cathode Active Material (CAM) domestically.
2. Make cells domestically that contain domestic CAM.
3. Make packs domestically from cells (2).
It can be done and is happening. I cofounded @Mitra_Chem five years ago to help solve the domestic CAM problem.
We are creating an entirely American CAM supply chain that addresses all of the markets above.
Onwards.
