It’s easy to run through each day, checking off items on the To Do list and looking to what’s next. We took a moment to review the last year and realized just how busy we were.
New Team Members and Record Conference Attendance
In 2025, KR gained three new team members, strengthening our sales, engineering, and software development capacity. These additions to our team played key roles in preparing us for our late-summer move and increasing our conference and trade show attendance: this year, we attended nine events across Europe and the United States, including the inaugural FPGA Horizons conference. We presented at three of these events, sharing our insights on the Key Criteria for Choosing an RFSoM.
New Clients and Partners
CERN and Aalto University were among the customers who chose to integrate one of our RFSoMs into their projects this year. We were thrilled to see our KRM-4 pass acceptance testing for CERN’s next generation Beam Position Monitors (BPM), designed for the High-Luminosity Large Hadron Collider. The KRM-4 also plays a role in the world’s widest bandwidth radio astronomical receiver system, built by Aalto University’s Metsähovi Radio Observatory.
In June, we announced our partnership with German FPGA SoM manufacturer Trenz Electronic, a strategic alliance that will expand the joint offering of FPGA SoMs designed and manufactured in Europe. By joining forces, we both work towards a complementary offering of modules and evaluation platforms.
New Location and Local Investment
Over the last few years, the addition of new team members and the need for greater production capacity motivated a search for a larger office. In September, we moved into a new building in Basel with twice the amount of space, allowing for the eventual set-up of six assembly lines from our current three. We added six new machines to our premises, increasing our in-house production and machining capability. We also acquired a new, top-of-the-line phase noise analyzer which allows us to properly characterize the purity of our reference clocks.
This year, KR invested in Swiss innovation by sponsoring ETH Zurich’s aCentauri solar racing team in their voyage across Australia. We also hosted our second Future Day student, giving our team the opportunity to explain their work and hopefully inspire new career ideas in our visitor.
As we have for the last six years, we produced, tested, and delivered countless RFSoMs and eval kits to our customers around the world. After all that, we’re due for our annual holiday break. See you in 2026!