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Hyperspace, a Tel Aviv-based startup, says its custom cloud instances for database searches can dramatically speed up queries.

Hyperspace is using ‘domain-specific computing’ to accelerate database searches

Axelera designs AI-running chips and systems for applications like security, retail, automotive and robotics.

Axelera lands new funds as the AI chip market heats up

Etched, founded by Harvard dropouts, is building an AI chip that can only run one type of model: transformer-based models.

Etched is building an AI chip that only runs one type of model

The long-term goal with Rivos is to build chips primarily for servers that can handle intensive data analytics and AI workloads, including generative AI workloads.

Apple lawsuit behind it, chip startup Rivos plots its next moves

The funding climate for AI chip startups, once as sunny as a mid-July day, is beginning to cloud over as Nvidia asserts its dominance. According to a recent report, U.S.…

Hailo lands $120 million to keep battling Nvidia as most AI chip startups struggle

A new Germany-based startup, Semron, is developing what it describes as “3D-scaled” chips to run AI models locally on smartphones, earbuds, VR headsets and other mobile devices. Co-created by Kai-Uwe…

Semron wants to replace chip transistors with ‘memcapacitors’

Around a year ago, TechCrunch wrote about a little-known company developing AI-accelerating chips to face off against hardware from titans of industry — e.g. Nvidia, AMD, Microsoft, Meta, AWS and…

EnCharge raises $22.6M to commercialize its AI-accelerating chips

Smartphones are equipped with a range of chips that perform various functions. Among them, there’s a semiconductor chip called the power amplifier that is responsible for conditioning and amplifying the…

Power amplifier startup Falcomm to close $4M, taking on Qualcomm and Broadcom

The ability of Huawei — and China at large — to manufacture advanced chips amid U.S. sanctions has again come into question as conflicting claims arise. The U.S. finds no…

US finds no evidence Huawei can mass produce advanced phone chips

Arm, the U.K.-based chipmaker owned by Japan’s SoftBank since 2016, has filed for a Nasdaq listing five months after announcing it had filed confidential, preliminary IPO paperwork with U.S. regulators.…

Chip company Arm files for Nasdaq listing in IPO anticipated to be this year’s biggest

The U.S. is weighing additional restrictions on AI chip export to China amid rising concerns over the use of advanced semiconductors for military modernization. The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday…

China’s AI firms might further lose chip access in new US ban

China has banned some sales of Micron products after launching a probe into the American memory chip giant for cybersecurity risks in early April. The decision is widely seen as…

China bans Micron chips in key infrastructure over ‘national security’ risks

At a virtual event this morning, Meta lifted the curtains on its efforts to develop in-house infrastructure for AI workloads, including generative AI like the type that underpins its recently…

Meta bets big on AI with custom chips — and a supercomputer

Chinese smartphone giant Oppo is disbanding its young chip design unit Zeku as weak global demand forces major handset manufacturers to cut costs and restrategize. The decision comes as a…

China’s phone giant Oppo disbands chip design unit as shipments slump

Two months after the U.S. choked off China’s access to two of Nvidia’s high-end microchips, the American semiconductor design giant unveiled a substitute with a reduced processing speed for its…

Nvidia touts a slower chip for China to avoid US ban

Volkswagen is accelerating the pace to automate its electric vehicles for Chinese customers. CARIAD, a wholly owned automotive software company of the German auto behemoth, intends to set up a…

Volkswagen to plough €2.4B into vehicle automation in China and form JV with Horizon Robotics

At a jam-packed event in Cupertino this morning, Apple revealed details of the chip powering the iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max: the A16 Bionic. The successor to…

Apple unveils the A16 Bionic, its most powerful mobile chip yet

As the demand for AI-powered apps grows, startups developing dedicated chips to accelerate AI workloads on-premises are reaping the benefits. A recent ZDNet piece reaffirms that the AI edge chip…

AI chip startup SiMa.ai bags another $30M ahead of growth

Intel has confirmed plans to build a semiconductor plant in Germany as part of an investment of up to €80 billion ($88 billion) in Europe over the next decade.

Intel plans to build a $19 billion chip plant in Germany

The United States Department of Commerce Tuesday released results from a survey of 150 companies, aimed at getting a better picture of just how widespread of a supply crunch is…

Sec. Raimondo warns US is far from resolving chip shortage

Intel this week highlighted plans to build two chip manufacturing facilities outside of Columbus, Ohio. The announcement is still early stages, involving the eventual allotment of $20 billion to construct…

Intel eyes Ohio for a pair of chip factories amid global shortage

It’s that time of year again. Analysts and journalists from across the globe have convened in Hawaii to witness Qualcomm announce its big chip news for the year. Just a…

Qualcomm’s new mobile flagship, Snapdragon 8 Gen 1, arrives on devices this year

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Equity Tuesday: Everyone is raising money at the same time

Chip, the chatbot app that plugs into your bank account and lets you automatically save for a rainy day, has raised nearly £1.1 million on equity crowdfunding platform Crowdcube. The…

Chip, the chatbot savings app, raises over £1M in crowdfunding with plans to apply for a banking license

KKR is buying WebMD for $2.8 billion, Didi and SoftBank invest $2 billion into Grab, Daimler and Bosch create a driverless parking garage and the next Microsoft HoloLens gets an…

When London fintech startup Chip launched late last year, the company’s vision was something a lot more ambitious than a simple ‘micro savings’ app delivered through a millennial-friendly chatbot.

Chip’s new chatbot app points the way to ‘plugin banking’

Who needs a smart car when you have a cool car? The Dashbot is a $49 add on for your vehicle that allows you to interact with your phone and…

Become Michael Knight with Dashbot, an AI for your car

It has been a very slow year for tech IPOs, but Seattle-based Impinj decided to brave the public markets and list on the Nasdaq today. The company priced at the…

Impinj soars 28% in internet-of-things IPO

Indice Semiconductor has raised a $6 million Series A to focus on marketing its chips, which use an algorithm that the company says can help appliances save energy. The round…

Indice Semiconductor, Maker Of Energy-Saving Chips, Raises $6M Series A

In case you can afford an LCD TV but not one of the good ones (I, for example, still have my Sony CRT-TV from 2004), Mitsumi Electric’s new solution might…