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Latent AI, which says it can compress common AI models by 10x, lands some key backing

Roughly a year ago, Latent AI, a now three-year-old, Menlo Park, Ca.-based startup, pitched a handful of investors during TechCrunch’s Battlefield competition. It didn’t win that contest,

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NeuReality raises $8M for its novel AI inferencing platform

NeuReality, an Israeli AI hardware startup that is working on a novel approach to improving AI inferencing platforms by doing away with the current CPU-centric model, is coming out of stealth today an

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MIT aims to speed up robot movements to match robot thoughts using custom chips

MIT researchers are looking to address the significant gap between how quickly robots can process information (relatively slowly), and how fast they can move (very quickly thanks to modern hardware ad

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2021 will be a calmer year for semiconductors and chips (except for Intel)

If ever there was a typically quiet tech industry that seemed to drive massive headlines this year, it was semiconductors. From record-setting MA purchases to prodigious venture capital financing, the

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More chip industry action as Marvell is acquiring Inphi for $10B

It’s been quite a time for chip industry consolidation, and today Marvell joined the acquisition parade when it announced it is acquiring Inphi in a combination of stock and cash valued at appro

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Virus worries hit European shares, Dow also falls

Stock markets failed to mount a rebound on Tuesday, after dropping sharply the day before on fears that a coronavirus resurgence will force fresh economically painful containment measures.Traders hav

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AMD to buy chip peer Xilinx for $35 billion in data center push

Lisa Su, president and CEO of AMD, addresses the 2019 CES in Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S., January 9, 2019. /Reuters Semiconductor designer Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD) AMD.O said on Tuesday it

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AMD grabs Xilinx for $35 billion as chip industry consolidation continues

The chip industry consolidation dance continued this morning as AMD has entered into an agreement to buy Xilinx for $35 billion, giving the company access to a broad set of specialized workloads.AMD

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Lux-backed Flex Logix announces availability of its fast and cheap X1 AI chip for the edge

In the computing world, there are probably more types of chips available than your local supermarket snack aisle. Diverse computing environments (data centers and the cloud, edge, mobile devices, IoT,

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Wall Street finishes up as stimulus talks continue

U.S. stocks rose on Friday and the SP 500 and Nasdaq registered their biggest weekly percentage gains since July as optimism over more federal fiscal aid grew. Talks were expected to continue on a CO

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Max Q: Huge week ahead for SpaceX and Virgin Orbit

This week could be the biggest week to date for private spaceflight, with landmark launch attempts coming from both Virgin Orbit and SpaceX .Virgin Orbit is looking to join the elite club of private l

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Xilinx launches a new reconfigurable space-grade chip optimized for local machine learning on orbit

Space-specific silicon company Xilinx has developed a new processor for in-space and satellite applications that records a number of firsts: It’s the first 20nm process that’s rated for u

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OctoML raises $15M to make optimizing ML models easier

OctoML, a startup founded by the team behind the Apache TVM machine learning compiler stack project, today announced that it has raised a $15 million Series A round led by Amplify, with participation