Hawker Operators Gain Access to High-Speed Starlink Connectivity Through Textron Aviation Customer Support Network

WICHITA, Kan.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sep 8, 2026--

Textron Aviation Inc., a Textron Inc. (NYSE: TXT) company, today announced Starlink’s high-speed internet is now available for the Hawker 700, 800 and 900 series aircraft, following the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) issuance of AeroMech’s Supplemental Type Certificate (STC). The STC includes the Starlink Aviation Performance Kit, which utilizes Starlink’s advanced constellation of Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites to help customers stay connected throughout their journey with more reliability over land, water and remote areas, where traditional in-flight Wi-Fi may not have service.

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“Hawker operators continue to look to Textron Aviation for long-term care and upgrade solutions that ensure their aircraft remain mission-ready in today’s operating environment,” said Brad White, senior vice president, Customer Support. “By listening closely to our customers to expand Starlink availability, we are reinforcing our commitment to supporting the Hawker fleet.”

Hawker 700, 800 and 900 series operators can now schedule installation of the Starlink Aviation Performance Kit at North American Textron Aviation Service Centers and select international service centers. The next-generation Starlink system supports streaming, video calls, gaming and other online applications, with download speeds of up to 1 Gbps, upload speeds of up to 100 Mbps and latency as low as 20 ms. Customers can learn more about the upgrade and contact the Textron Aviation Customer Support team to schedule an installation here.

About Textron Aviation Customer Support
Textron Aviation, through its Beechcraft, Cessna and Hawker brands, is renowned for its unrivaled global service network dedicated to complete life-cycle support. In addition to its expansive company-owned footprint, Textron Aviation’s jet, turboprop and piston customers have access to a global network of more than 300 authorized service facilities. Textron Aviation also offers a mobile support program featuring more than 40 mobile service units and on-site service technicians and support. Find additional information about Textron Aviation’s service programs at http://txtav.com/en/service.

About Textron Aviation
We have been inspiring the journey of flight for nearly 100 years. Textron Aviation Inc., a Textron Inc. company, has empowered our collective talent across the Beechcraft, Cessna, Hawker and Pipistrel brands to design and deliver the best aviation experience for our customers. With a range that includes everything from business jets, turboprops, light and high-performance pistons, to special mission, military trainer and defense aircraft, Textron Aviation has the most versatile and comprehensive aviation product portfolio in the world and a workforce that has produced more than half of all general aviation aircraft worldwide. Customers in more than 170 countries rely on our legendary performance, reliability and versatility, along with our trusted global customer service network, for affordable, productive and flexible flight. For more information, visit www.txtav.com.

About Textron Inc.
Textron Inc. is a multi-industry company that leverages its global network of aircraft, defense, industrial and finance businesses to provide customers with innovative solutions and services. Textron is known around the world for its powerful brands such as Bell, Cessna, Beechcraft, Pipistrel, Jacobsen, Kautex, Lycoming, E-Z-GO, and Textron Systems. For more information, visit: www.textron.com.

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About Starlink
Starlink delivers high-speed, low-latency internet to users all over the world. As the world's first and largest satellite constellation using a low Earth orbit, Starlink delivers broadband internet capable of supporting streaming, online gaming, video calls and more. Starlink is engineered and operated by SpaceX. As the world’s leading provider of launch services, SpaceX is leveraging its deep experience with both spacecraft and on-orbit operations to deploy the world’s most advanced broadband internet system. Learn more at www.starlink.com Follow Starlink on X https://x.com/Starlink.

About AeroMech Inc.
AeroMech offers a fully vertically integrated pathway to bring new products to the aviation market from conceptual design all the way through engineering, certification, production, and installation. By utilizing its delegations as an FAA STC ODA, Part 21 PMA and Part 145 repair stations at the Orlando/Sanford Airport (KSFB) and in Smyrna, TN (KMQY), AeroMech can provide a dynamic and efficient approach to integrating the latest and most desirable technology into your aircraft.

Hawker operators gain access to high-speed Starlink connectivity through Textron Aviation Customer Support network

DAEJEON, South Korea--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sep 8, 2026--

Panmnesia, a fabless semiconductor company, and Meta, a global hyperscaler, have jointly proposed a next-generation artificial intelligence datacenter architecture in which an entire datacenter operates like a single chip. The work appears as an invited Review in Nature Reviews Electrical Engineering (NREE), a Nature Portfolio journal.

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The unit of AI execution is moving from one chip to the whole datacenter

As AI models grow into the trillions of parameters, a single training step can involve hundreds to thousands of accelerators exchanging terabytes of data. Because overall progress is set by the slowest participant, adding accelerators boosts compute capacity, but it also makes the system prone to frequent delays and failures caused by bottlenecking stragglers. When one component responds late, the rest stop and wait — and the wider the range of latency becomes, the harder it is to predict when a job will finish.

Narrowing that spread—and thereby creating a larger, more stable unit of execution—is an industry-wide challenge. Within a rack, devices are already tightly coupled through dedicated high-speed links. The next challenge lies in the segment beyond it — the connection between racks. Today, that segment still relies largely on general-purpose networks such as Ethernet or InfiniBand, where each request must pass through a network interface and a software-based coordination layer, each of which widens latency spread along the way. This work aims to bring greater predictability to this cross-rack segment.

Their foundation is Compute Express Link (CXL), an open industry standard. CXL is developed collaboratively by semiconductor and infrastructure companies, so it can be adopted across the industry without being locked into a single vendor's ecosystem. The architecture proposed by Panmnesia and Meta uses CXL to minimize latency variability beyond the rack. The goal is a datacenter that behaves with the predictability of a single chip.

At the core of the CXL-based architecture: three hardware elements and a hierarchical deployment

The proposed architecture places CPUs, accelerators and memory in a single CXL-based domain, extending the range over which cache coherence is maintained from within the rack to the datacenter as a whole. Three hardware elements — a high-fan-out non-blocking switch, a link acceleration unit (LAU) and a fabric controller — bound latency variability, and the resources themselves are laid out using the same principles that govern the placement of blocks inside a chip. To overcome the physical reach limits of electrical signaling, the Review also sets out how optical links (CXL-over-optics) can extend the reach of a CXL fabric. (Details are given in the Appendix.)

To gauge the effect of the architecture, the Review uses a conventional rack-scale configuration — one CPU coupled to two accelerators — as its reference point. Against that baseline, the number of accelerators a single CPU coordinates rises eightfold, from two to sixteen, and the coherence domain that operates as one unit grows to as many as 960 accelerators, roughly 13 times the reference platform. Accesses that once left the rack to traverse a network now follow a fixed path, with round-trip latency falling from the microsecond range to several hundred nanoseconds — as much as an order of magnitude lower. The unit of replacement after a failure also narrows from a whole server to a single device. Coupling devices at this scale into what behaves as one execution environment would make it possible to train a far larger single AI model without interruption, or to run multiple services concurrently on shared infrastructure without one stalling another.

Review articles in NREE are published by invitation only: the journal identifies a small number of researchers or organizations leading a given field and commissions the work from them. Nature’s selection of Panmnesia as an author on CXL-based datacenter architecture reflects recognition of the company’s technology as representative of the field. Panmnesia is the first semiconductor startup worldwide to lead an NREE Review, and the article is also the journal’s first Review to address CXL technology and AI datacenter architecture.

Myoungsoo Jung, CEO of Panmnesia, said, “As AI systems continue to scale, the ability to connect large numbers of accelerators and memory devices quickly and efficiently is becoming just as important as the performance of individual accelerators. This research outlines a direction for next-generation AI infrastructure, where CXL enables the entire datacenter to operate as a single computing system.”

Panmnesia has already implemented the architecture's core components in silicon, has completed validation, and is now preparing them for commercial supply. The Review is available at the link below.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s44287-026-00315-5

The CXL-based one-chip-like datacenter architecture introduced by Meta and Panmnesia in Nature Reviews Electrical Engineering, illustrating the idea of operating an entire datacenter as though it were a single chip.