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| Tracking: Tapeouts • Process Nodes • Packaging • Foundry Partnerships • AI Inference • Ethernet Switching • Coherent Optics • Memory Bandwidth • Power Efficiency • Supply Chain |
Austin-based Neurophos has closed a $110 million oversubscribed Series A financing to accelerate development of its photonic AI inference processors, bringing total funding to $118 million. The round was led by Gates Frontier with...
Upscale AI raised $200 million in Series A funding to advance a full-stack AI networking platform designed for large-scale, tightly synchronized AI clusters. The round was led by Tiger Global, Premji Invest, and Xora...
Micron Technology signed an exclusive letter of intent to acquire Powerchip Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation’s P5 fabrication site in Tongluo, Miaoli County, Taiwan, for US$1.8 billion in cash. The deal adds roughly 300,000...
Ethernovia closed a Series B funding round of more than $90 million, led by Maverick Silicon with participation from Socratic Partners, Conduit Capital, and CDIB-TEN Capital. Existing investors Porsche SE, Qualcomm...
SiFive announced plans to integrate NVIDIA NVLink Fusion into its high-performance, data-center-class RISC-V compute platforms, enabling coherent, high-bandwidth connectivity between SiFive CPUs and NVIDIA GPUs and accelerators. The move targets...
OpenAI and Cerebras have signed a multi-year agreement to deploy 750 megawatts of Cerebras wafer-scale AI systems to support OpenAI customers. The deployment will roll out in multiple stages beginning...
Quadric announced a $30 million Series C funding round as its product revenues more than tripled in 2025 compared with 2024, reflecting growing adoption of its on-device AI processor IP...
In a blog posting, Arm says the path to scaling artificial intelligence now depends on system-level architecture rather than standalone accelerators, according to a new blog post outlining its view of...
Cadence unveiled a new Chiplet Spec-to-Packaged Parts ecosystem aimed at reducing engineering complexity and accelerating time to market for customers building chiplets for physical AI, data center, and high-performance computing (HPC)...
Micron Technology will break ground on January 16, 2026, on its long-planned semiconductor megafab in Onondaga County, New York, formally launching construction of what the company describes as the largest semiconductor...
NXP Semiconductors introduced a new software layer for edge intelligence with the launch of its eIQ Agentic AI Framework, extending its edge AI platform to support autonomous, agent-based decision making directly...
Marvell Technology has agreed to acquire XConn Technologies in a transaction valued at approximately $540 million, strengthening its position in PCIe and CXL switching for AI data center infrastructure. The deal, structured as...
Tower Semiconductor and LightIC Technologies announced a strategic collaboration aimed at extending silicon photonics beyond AI data-center infrastructure into automotive, robotics, and Physical AI sensing applications. The partnership leverages Tower’s mature silicon photonics...
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