Empower Semiconductor announced it has closed more than $140 million in Series D financing. The round was led by Fidelity Management & Research Company with participation from Maverick Silicon, CapitalG, Atreides Management, Socratic Partners, Walden Catalyst Ventures, Knollwood, and a wholly owned subsidiary of the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA). Barclays Capital served as exclusive […]
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Multibeam Corp. has secured $31 million in Series B funding to accelerate the global deployment of its multi-column E-Beam Lithography (EBL) platform, aimed at next-generation semiconductor manufacturing. The oversubscribed round includes support from Onto Innovation Inc. (NYSE: ONTO), experts in process control
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sureCore, global industry experts in ultra-low power embedded memory solutions, has expanded its sureFIT™ custom memory design service to address the evolving requirements of AI chip developers. This initiative is aimed at further supporting performance
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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
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Ayar Labs has announced the introduction of the industry’s first Universal Chiplet Interconnect Express™ (UCIe™) optical interconnect chiplet, designed to maximize performance and efficiency in AI infrastructures by significantly reducing latency
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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.
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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 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 […]
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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 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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