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      "text": "In 2020, SKYT announced that it had licensed a technology from MIT and its Lincoln Laboratory. In this press release, it's referred to as a \"radiation-hardened\" \"fully depleted silicon-on-insulator\" process, or FDSOI, for microelectronics.58",
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