Innovation Across the Digital Infrastructure Stack From Silicon Valley to the global infrastructure ecosystem, Converge Digest tracks the companies building tomorrow's networks. |
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| Tracking: Funding • Tapeouts • Product Launches • Customer Deployments • Manufacturing • Partnerships • Acquisitions |
Etched emerged from stealth mode, announcing a working AI inference chip, more than $1 billion in signed customer contracts, and $800 million raised across multiple previously undisclosed financing rounds. The latest financing closed...
Netris has raised a $15 million Series A financing led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), providing new capital to expand its network automation platform for AI infrastructure. The funding round was...
Qualcomm announced an agreement to acquire Modular, a startup founded by compiler and AI infrastructure pioneer Chris Lattner. The transaction is designed to strengthen Qualcomm’s software foundation for generative and agentic AI...
SAN FRANCISCO — OPAQUE introduced a new open framework for verifying the identity, governance, and actions of AI agents, addressing one of the most pressing challenges emerging in enterprise AI...
SandboxAQ announced a definitive agreement with the U.S. Department of Commerce’s CHIPS Research and Development Office for a $500 million award aimed at reducing U.S. dependence on foreign-controlled materials and...
PsiQuantum has begun construction of its quantum computing facility at Moreton Bay Central in Queensland, Australia, marking a significant milestone in the company’s effort to build what it describes as...
Tensordyne, a startup headquartered in Sunnyvale, California and Munich, Germany, announced the successful tape-out of its 3nm Napier AI inference processor and unveiled a rack-scale inference architecture that the company...
PALO ALTO, Calif. — PicoJool, a Silicon Valley startup focused on optical connectivity for AI infrastructure, introduced a family of 200G Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Laser (VCSEL) products with bandwidth...
Forge Nano, a Denver-based start-up developing Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) equipment and advanced materials technology, announced that a commercial photonics technology company has selected its TEPHRA semiconductor wafer fabrication platform...
d-Matrix announced that its Corsair AI inference accelerator platform has entered full production, with volume shipments scheduled to begin this summer for select hyperscalers, neocloud providers, and frontier AI laboratories....
Rivvor introduced a sub-terahertz wireless interconnect platform designed for AI data centers, positioning the technology as an alternative to selected short-reach copper and fiber connections inside large-scale computing clusters. The...
XCENA raised $135 million in Series B funding to expand deployment of its memory-centric computing platform for AI infrastructure. The round brings total funding to $185 million and values the...
Tensormesh has raised $20 million in new funding from a strategic investor group that includes AMD Ventures, CoreWeave, and NVentures, extending its seed round and bringing total funding to $24.5 million. At the...
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