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SandboxAQ Scales LQMs Using NVIDIA DGX Cloud for Discovery

April 16, 2025April 21, 2025 Components Source, LLCLeave a Comment

SandboxAQ has announced a collaboration with NVIDIA to accelerate breakthroughs in biopharmaceuticals, chemicals, advanced materials, financial services, cybersecurity, navigation, and medical imaging. A member of the NVIDIA Inception program, SandboxAQ is

Blumind Raises $20M CAD Series A to Scale Ultra-Low-Power Analog AI

April 10, 2025April 21, 2025 Components Source, LLCLeave a Comment

Blumind, a developer of ultra-low-power analog AI chips for edge computing, has secured $20M CAD in Series A funding to advance the development and commercialization of its AMPL™ technology platform.

imec Spin-Off Vertical Compute Raises €20M for AI Chip Development

January 16, 2025April 9, 2025 Components Source, LLC

Vertical Compute, a new spin-off from imec, has raised €20 million in seed funding to develop vertically integrated memory and compute technology for AI applications. The investment round was led by imec.xpand and joined by Eurazeo, XAnge, Vector Gestion, and imec. The company is headquartered in Louvain-La-Neuve with R&D centers in Leuven, Grenoble, and Nice. […]

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IBM Pioneers Co-Packaged Optics with PWG for AI Data Centers

December 11, 2024January 13, 2025 Components Source, LLC

IBM has unveiled a breakthrough in co-packaged optics (CPO) technology, leveraging polymer optical waveguides (PWG) to significantly enhance AI data center performance. This advancement represents the first successful implementation of PWG to support CPO, as detailed in IBM Research’s recently published technical paper. The innovation enables high-bandwidth optical connectivity, offering faster AI model training, improved […]

SK hynix Develops Industry’s First Known 1c DDR5 DRAM

August 29, 2024January 1, 2025 Components Source, LLC

The Seoul, Korea-based SK hynix Inc. announced today that it has developed the industry’s first and only known 16Gb DDR5 DRAM using its 1c node, and marking the sixth generation of the 10nm process. This achievement signifies a new milestone in extreme scaling, bringing DRAM process technology closer to the 10nm threshold. As the challenges […]

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Keysight Benchmarking Solution for AI Infrastructure Launch

February 29, 2024December 8, 2024 Components Source, LLC

Keysight Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: KEYS) has ventured into the artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) infrastructure sphere by unveiling the Keysight AI Data Center Test Platform. This platform has been meticulously engineered to help expedite AI/ML network validation and optimization innovation by revolutionizing AI infrastructure benchmarking, resulting in unparalleled scale and efficiency. AI deployment […]

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Samtec Unveils PCIe 6.0 AI Card Connector

February 27, 2024January 3, 2025 Components Source, LLC

Samtec Unveils PCIe 6.0 AI Card Connector The New Albany, Indian-based Samtec, a privately held global manufacturer of a broad line of electronic interconnect solutions, has introduced Generate™ high-speed edge card sockets (HSEC6-DV Series), tailored for 64 Gbps PAM4 (32 Gbps NRZ) applications and PCIe® 6.0 compatibility. Positioned as a cornerstone in prototypical PCIe 6.0 AI […]