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Former Arm executives join ‘Tsetlin machine’ startup
Former Arm executives join ‘Tsetlin machine’ startup
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Noel Hurley, a former vice president at processor IP licensor Arm, has joined AI startup Literal Labs as its CEO.
AI design of PCBs raises US$10 million for startup Quilter
AI design of PCBs raises US$10 million for startup Quilter
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Circuit board design startup Quilter Inc. (Menlo Park, Calif.) has raised US$10 million to help it automate circuit board design.
SoftBank’s Son seeks US$100 billion for own AI processor venture
SoftBank’s Son seeks US$100 billion for own AI processor venture
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Masayoshi Son, the CEO of Japanese conglomerate SoftBank Group, wants to raise US$100 billion for an AI chip venture codenamed…
OpenAI’s Altman seeks trillions of dollars for chip project
OpenAI’s Altman seeks trillions of dollars for chip project
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Sam Altman, the CEO of Microsoft-backed artificial intelligence pioneer OpenAI, could be asking for US$7 trillion dollars for an AI…

Edge AI startup Semron raises funds for memcapacitor processing
Edge AI startup Semron raises funds for memcapacitor processing
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Semron GmbH (Dresden, Germany) has raised €7.3 million (about US$7.9 million) for edge AI processing based on memory-capacitive devices, according to reports. The funding round was led by Join Capital…
Korean AI chipmaker Rebellions closes $124 million funding round
Korean AI chipmaker Rebellions closes $124 million funding round
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AI chipmaker Rebellions Inc. (Seoul, South Korea) has raised US$124 million in a Series B round of funding led by KT Corp., the country’s leading data center business. Rebellions is…
First human receives brain-computer interface from Neuralink
First human receives brain-computer interface from Neuralink
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Elon Musk, the founder of automobile company Tesla, has announced his Neuralink company has inserted a brain-computer interface chip into a human patient for the first time. “The first human…
Intel, NTT, SK Hynix in optical processing project – report
Intel, NTT, SK Hynix in optical processing project – report
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US chip giant Intel is working with Japan’s leading telecommunications operator NTT and Korea’s SK Hynix to develop production technology for optical processors, according to Nikkei. The Japanese government is…
SK Hynix bouncing back on AI demand
SK Hynix bouncing back on AI demand
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SK Hynix, the world’s second largest memory chip maker, made an operating profit in the 4Q23 on sales that increased 25 percent sequentially and 47 percent year-on-year. The company said…
Arm engineering veteran joins ‘reversible computing’ startup
Arm engineering veteran joins ‘reversible computing’ startup
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Andrew Sloss, a veteran engineer who ended his 25 years at Arm as senior principal research engineer, has joined a UK startup called Vaire Computing Ltd. Vaire Computing, headquartered in…
Graphcore’s CEO Nigel Toon authors AI book, goes on the road
Graphcore’s CEO Nigel Toon authors AI book, goes on the road
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Nigel Toon, the co-founder and CEO of AI chip company Graphcore Ltd. (Bristol, England), has written a book titled How AI Thinks and is embarking on a series of promotional…
OpenAI’s Altman wants to build multiple wafer fabs
OpenAI’s Altman wants to build multiple wafer fabs
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Sam Altman, the CEO of Microsoft-backed artificial intelligence (AI) pioneer OpenAI, is in talks to raise billions of dollars to build a network of wafer fabs, according to reports. Altman…
Gartner differs from other analysts over Nvidia
Gartner differs from other analysts over Nvidia
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Gartner reckons Nvidia was the fifth-ranked chip vendor in the world in 2023 – in contrast to other analysts that rate the graphics and AI specialist with higher sales and…
CEO interview: MIPS’ Sameer Wasson on a RISC-V reboot
CEO interview: MIPS’ Sameer Wasson on a RISC-V reboot
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MIPS Inc. is emerging as a significant RISC-V processor core licensor under its recently-appointed CEO Sameer Wasson. eeNews Europe interviewed Wasson to find out how he expects to navigate the…
IDC drops PC market forecast ahead of 2024 rebound
IDC drops PC market forecast ahead of 2024 rebound
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IDC has lowered its forecast for the worldwide PC market in 2023 due to a ‘tenuous macroeconomic environment.” The market researcher said it now expects the worldwide PC shipment volume…
AI is market driver in GSA’s 2024 outlook survey
AI is market driver in GSA’s 2024 outlook survey
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Artificial Intelligence has jumped up the rankings as an important sector driving semiconductor sales, according to an outlook survey conducted for the Global Semiconductor Alliance by KPMG LLP. The 19th…
Samsung’s next phone to include real-time language translation
Samsung’s next phone to include real-time language translation
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Samsung’s upcoming Galaxy S24 smartphone is set to include real-time language translation using processors within the phone, according to a Nikkei report. The ‘AI Live Translate Call’ feature is based…
Intel shows Gaudi 3 alongside Core Ultra, Xeon processors
Intel shows Gaudi 3 alongside Core Ultra, Xeon processors
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Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger showed off an early sample of the Gaudi 3 AI accelerator at an event in New York used to launch Intel Core Ultra and 5th generation…
Synthara offers ‘easy transition’ compute-in-memory
Synthara offers ‘easy transition’ compute-in-memory
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Synthara AG (Zug, Switzerland), a 2019 spin off from the Institute of Neuroinformatics (University of Zurich and ETH Zurich), is claiming it has a superior compute-in-memory architecture. The technique is…
IBM, Meta launch alliance for open, safe, responsible AI
IBM, Meta launch alliance for open, safe, responsible AI
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IBM and Meta, formerly Facebook, have launched the AI Alliance with over 50 founding members and with the aim of creating guidelines and opportunities for open, safe and responsible artificial…
China ramps AI chip production but short of the leading-edge
China ramps AI chip production but short of the leading-edge
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HiSilicon, the semiconductor subsidiary of Huawei, has launched the Ascend 910B AI-GPU processor and is enjoying strong orders for the part from across China, according to TrendForce. US restrictions are…
AMD launches MI300, claims AI performance lead over Nvidia
AMD launches MI300, claims AI performance lead over Nvidia
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Advanced Micro Devices Inc. has launched the Instinct MI300 series data center AI accelerators together with the ROCm 6 software stack supporting large language models (LLMs). The MI300 component comes…
In-memory AI startup EnCharge raises another US$22.6 million
In-memory AI startup EnCharge raises another US$22.6 million
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AI startup EnCharge AI Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.) has raised US$22.6 million in a round of funding to help it pursue charge-based in-memory AI computing. This brings the amount raised…
CFIUS review leads to AI startup losing Saudi backing
CFIUS review leads to AI startup losing Saudi backing
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Prosperity7 has sold its stake in Rain Neuromorphics, the AI processor company that is backed by Sam Altman, the founder and CEO of OpenAI. Prosperity7, a subsidiary of the state-owned…
Gartner trims 2024 global chip market growth forecast
Gartner trims 2024 global chip market growth forecast
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Gartner has adjusted its global semiconductor revenue forecast for 2024 and now reckons it will increase by 16.8 percent to US$624 billion. This is a slight reduction of the growth…
Korea-linked startup MangoBoost raises funds for DPUs
Korea-linked startup MangoBoost raises funds for DPUs
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Data processing startup MangoBoost Inc. (Bellevue, Wash.) has raised US$55 million in a Series A round of financing led by IMM Investment and Shinhan Venture Investment. The company, founded in 2022,…
Reports: NXP was hacked by China for years
Reports: NXP was hacked by China for years
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A Chinese hacker group known as Chimera stole intellectual property from the internal computer networks of NXP Semiconductors NV (Eindhoven, The Netherlands) from late 2017 to early 2020, according to…
AI-EDA startup Astrus raises seed funding
AI-EDA startup Astrus raises seed funding
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Astrus Inc. (Toronto, Canada), a well-connected startup developing AI-based EDA tools for analog circuit layout, has raised a US$2.4 million seed funding round. The round was led by Khosla Ventures…


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