AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug 12, 2026--
Inc. magazine has again named VORAGO Technologies to its 2026 Inc. 5000 list, climbing 65 spots to #2,789 from last year’s ranking. Marking its fifth appearance on the prestigious entrepreneurial list, VORAGO more than doubled its revenue from 2022–2025. The company also placed #32 in the Engineering sector, #300 in Texas, and #88 in the greater Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos region, equating to across-the-board rank increases from 2025.
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VORAGO designs and manufactures radiation-hardened (rad-hard) and radiation-tolerant (rad-tolerant) microcontrollers (MCUs) and microprocessors (MPUs) built to withstand severe radiation of up to 300 krad(Si) Total Ionizing Dose and extreme temperatures from -55°C to 200°C (-67°F to 392°F) typical in deep space exploration and satellite missions.
Since its 2004 founding, the company has shipped over 24,000 products worldwide and supported more than 70 space missions. Recent highlights include NASA’s Artemis II mission and Orion spacecraft, the joint NASA-Italian Space Agency (ASI) LuGRE (Lunar GNSS Receiver Experiment) lunar payload initiative, and the U.S. Space Development Agency’s (SDA) phased constellation deployments, known as tranches.
"We are pushing the boundaries of satellite and space computing by bringing specialized, radiation-protected silicon within reach for every mission," said Bernd Lienhard, Vorago CEO. "By matching right-sized radiation performance directly to mission profiles, we eliminate steep non-recurrent engineering expenses and enable New Space innovators to deploy and scale breakthrough applications from LEO to GEO—where upscreened COTS components and software workarounds routinely fail."
Building on its widely-adopted proprietary HARDSIL® technology, VORAGO doubled its product portfolio in 2025 with targeted, cost-optimized silicon for high-growth space and defense markets:
“Every company on the Inc. 5000 has a story of perseverance, smart decision making, and a refusal to sit still,” says Mike Hofman, editor-in-chief of Inc. “Their growth reflects more than strong financial performance. It reflects creativity, resilience, and the customer focus required to build companies that make a lasting impact. We congratulate all honorees on this significant achievement.”
Inc. stated that the 2026 Inc. 5000 list recognizes a new class of businesses redefining what growth looks like. From AI and advanced manufacturing to healthcare and professional services, honorees are expanding their impact, creating jobs and proving that entrepreneurial ambition continues to fuel the U.S. economy. Among the 5,000 companies on the list, the median three-year revenue growth rate was 130%, and those companies collectively added more than 627,208 jobs to the U.S. economy over the past three years.
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About VORAGO Technologies
VORAGO Technologies is a privately held global semiconductor company based in Austin, Texas, providing industry-leading, high-reliability microelectronics for critical missions across the aerospace, defense, energy, and industrial markets since 2004. Best-in-class product families of radiation-hardened, radiation-tolerant, and extreme-temperature Arm-based semiconductor components enable the world's most demanding applications in the harshest environments. Whether facing the intense ionizing radiation present across all Earth orbits, the deep vacuum of space, or the extreme temperatures of autonomous defense vehicles and subsurface energy exploration, VORAGO helps customers including the Top 10 aerospace and defense customers achieve mission success. Learn more at www.voragotech.com.
About Inc.
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The VA4 product family features 100% compatible twin chips, with radiation-tolerant microcontrollers for cost-effective low Earth orbit missions and radiation-hardened microcontrollers for more demanding space applications.
NEW YORK (AP) — It may be hard to believe, but even Sir Anthony Hopkins doubts himself sometimes.
“There’s a part of me which says, ‘you didn’t write that,’” he recalls of composing his debut album, “Life Is a Dream.” “What’s it called? Impostor syndrome.”
Thankfully, it did not stop him from finishing the collection of 12 compositions he crafted over six decades.
Conducted by Gustavo Dudamel, performed by the Philharmonia Orchestra and recorded at London's Alexandra Palace in April, it will be released by Decca Records on Aug. 21.
“My first love, or vocation really, is music,” said the 88-year-old actor. “That sounds very official, but I was raised with a lot of music (of the) postwar years, and it influenced me. And I started playing the piano when I was quite young.”
He picked up the instrument at 4 and began composing years later, writing his first piece, a waltz, in 1960. He was 22 at the time.
“I find more freedom with music,” he says, compared to acting, which he labels “a discipline, you have to know your stuff. But music for me is a freewheeling kind of art form.”
And he's had his fair share of experience. Prior to the release of “Life Is a Dream,” Hopkins had composed scores for a number of films.
“The opening of ‘Shadowlands’ is my first adventure in composing music,” he said, referring to the 1993 film he starred in as “The Chronicles of Narnia” author C.S. Lewis. Then he composed for a few other movies, including 1996’s “August,” 2007’s “Slipstream” and 2020’s “Elyse.”
“It's about my childhood,” he says of the album, which shares its title with the Pedro Calderón de la Barca play. “It's basically the memories of my childhood and growing up in Wales, and my developments in life, my adolescent years,” and so on.
But he says “there’s a great sadness in it all because — don’t get me wrong, I’ve had a wonderful life — but underneath it all, there is the knowledge that life is one long goodbye. From the moment we’re born, we begin to die,” he starts to laugh. “Sounds so cheerful!”
That tension — or better put, wisdom — carries throughout the release. Take the first single as an example. “1947: Suite for Solo Piano and Orchestra: II. Bracken Road” is the middle composition in a three-part suite about a particular summer in South Wales. He says it contains a “melancholy and sadness,” a sense that arises with its cello.
“It’s the welcomed sound of nostalgia, of the strange, whimsical pain of life,” he describes the song. “All music is actually based in pain. Sounds pretty preposterous, but it is. It’s about the yearning.”
The same can be said about the song “Stella Aria” — named after his wife, director and actor Stella Hopkins — that deals with “the loneliness in all of us,” he says, but is part of a path to “sheer happiness.”
Hopkins has been reflecting for quite some time now — both in his memoir, “We Did OK, Kid,” released last fall — and on this album. “I look at my own life now, and especially this year; I’m going to be 89 at the end of the year. And I look back and I’m thinking, ‘good God, I couldn’t have planned any of this.’ From the moment I decided to become an actor, 70 years ago, I thought … ‘Why did I do that?’ I didn’t know, because I was pretty useless in school? I didn’t know what else to do. So I tried for a scholarship, became an actor instead of a musician. And suddenly I’m given a huge plate of success by some force of nature.”
“I'm without fear of mortality,” he adds. “I'm just so grateful I’ve lived this long.”
In a surprising turn of events, actor Bradley Cooper “passed me on to Dudamel,” says Hopkins, after witnessing Hopkins' composition a few years before with the Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Michael Seal. Dudamel was on board.
But when it came time to record at Alexandra Palace earlier this year, “I’m sitting there thinking, ‘How the hell did I write this?' I have no idea,” said Hopkins. “And Dudamel said, ‘This is wonderful.’ … He is one of the most astonishing people I’ve met. He’s so full of life and so full of energy and love, and it’s quite extraordinary.”
It's a shared affection.
“The same depth of imagination, humanity and emotional truth that has defined his extraordinary work on stage and screen is present in his music,” Dudamel said in a statement. “Anthony approaches music with the heart of a storyteller and the instincts of a poet, creating sound worlds that are both deeply personal and universally resonant.”
After his debut album, live performances may be next. Top of Hopkins' list is Carnegie Hall.
“That’s where I want to go. That’s what I want,” he says.
The 1947 film “Carnegie Hall” was a formative film for him, and he has the distinct memory of his mother saying, “You play at Carnegie Hall one day.”
It is yet another dream in a life full of them.
FILE - Anthony Hopkins arrives at the Oscars in Los Angeles on March 27, 2022. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)
