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FuriosaAI secured $125 million in Series C bridge funding to accelerate production of its RNGD (“Renegade”) AI inference chip and advance development of its next-generation silicon. The Seoul-based company, founded...
Multibeam Corp. raised $31 million in an oversubscribed Series B round to accelerate development of its multi-column electron beam lithography (EBL) systems for advanced semiconductor applications. The round was led...
Positron AI, a Reno-based startup focused on inference-optimized AI hardware, secured $51.6 million in an oversubscribed Series A funding round, bringing its total capital raised this year to over $75...
STMicroelectronics has announced a definitive agreement to acquire NXP Semiconductors’ MEMS sensor business in a deal valued at up to $950 million. The transaction includes an upfront cash payment of...
Coherent Corp. has released a new 56 Gbaud PAM4 transimpedance amplifier (TIA), the CHR1065, targeting next-gen 400G and 800G optical transceivers for data center applications. The product is now in...
MACOM Technology Solutions has completed the transfer of operations at its newly acquired semiconductor wafer fabrication facility in Research Triangle Park (RTP), North Carolina. The facility, which specializes in gallium...
Intel reported $12.9 billion in revenue for the second quarter of 2025, flat compared to a year ago, while absorbing steep losses from restructuring and impairment charges. The company posted...
At a high-profile AI Summit at the White House, President Trump unveiled “America’s AI Action Plan” focused on scaling infrastructure, reviving domestic semiconductor manufacturing, and positioning the United States as...
Cornelis Networks has deployed its CN5000 intelligent networking solution at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) as part of a major upgrade to the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) National...
Palo Alto-based xLight has raised $40 million in an oversubscribed Series B funding round to accelerate development of its extreme-ultraviolet (EUV) Free Electron Laser (FEL) technology for advanced semiconductor manufacturing....
FuriosaAI’s RNGD accelerator has demonstrated a 2.25x improvement in performance per watt for large language model (LLM) inference compared to traditional GPU-based systems, following rigorous validation with LG AI Research’s...
Panmnesia, a South Korean innovator in memory and interconnect technologies, released a technical report detailing a new AI infrastructure architecture that integrates Compute Express Link (CXL), NVLink, Ultra Accelerator Link (UALink), and High Bandwidth...
Ayar Labs has appointed Vivek Khanzodé as Vice President of Engineering and expanded its operations in both the U.S. and Asia to support rising demand for co-packaged optics (CPO) in...
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