Hard Techとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

hard tech (uncountable)

1. Technology that requires big breakthroughs and has a high barrier of entry.

   Synonym: deep tech

   • 2021, Trond Arne Undheim, Future Tech: How to Capture Value from Disruptive Industry Trends, Kogan Page Publishers, →ISBN, page 48:

     Emerging tech (which relates to other concepts such as frontier tech, deep tech, hard tech, sci-fi tech, exponential tech, or tough tech) is technology that still has an adoption curve into the future.

   • 2025 August 4, Mike Isaac, “A.I. Has Ushered in Silicon Valley’s ‘Hard Tech’ Era”, in The New York Times‎, archived from the original on 4 August 2025:

     The nation’s tech capital has shifted into its artificial intelligence age — some call it the “hard tech” era — and the signs are everywhere.