Groq Raises $750 Million as Inference Demand Surges
Groq secured $750 million in fresh financing at a $6.9 billion valuation, reinforcing its role in the U.S. AI technology stack. The round was led by Disruptive, with participation from...
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Altera Takes Flight as an Independent Company
Silver Lake completed the acquisition of a 51% stake in Altera from Intel, which retains a 49% interest. The transaction reestablishes Altera as the world’s largest independent, pure-play FPGA solutions...
Credo Launches Bluebird 1.6T Optical DSP
Credo launched its Bluebird 1.6T optical DSP this week, targeting the demands of AI infrastructure with a focus on low power, high bandwidth, and ultra-low latency. The chip enables 224Gbps...
AI Infrastructure Summit: Broadcom’s Ethernet for Scale Up, Out & Across
In a keynote at the AI Infrastructure Summit, Broadcom’s Ram Velaga argued that Ethernet is the only viable foundation for AI systems that must scale across racks and data centers....
SiFive Unveils 2nd Gen RISC-V AI Cores with Vector and Matrix Processing
SiFive launched its 2nd Generation Intelligence family of RISC-V processors, adding five new products optimized for AI workloads across edge and embedded applications. The lineup includes the new X160 Gen...
Axelera AI Unveils Metis M.2 Max for Edge AI and LLM Inference
Axelera AI launched the Metis M.2 Max, a new addition to its Metis AI processor family, designed to handle compute-intensive inference workloads at the edge. The module delivers PCIe-level performance...
Qualcomm and Google Cloud Team Up to Bring Gemini-Powered AI Agents to Cars
Qualcomm and Google Cloud deepened their automotive partnership today, announcing a joint effort to deliver next-generation agentic AI experiences in vehicles. The collaboration integrates Google Cloud’s Automotive AI Agent, powered...
Broadcom: AI, Networking Drive Record Results
Broadcom posted $15.95 billion in revenue for its third fiscal quarter of 2025, a 22% year-over-year increase driven by accelerating demand for custom AI accelerators, networking chips, and VMware-related infrastructure...
Avicena Appoints Former Samsung EVP Marco Chisari as CEO
Avicena has named Marco Chisari, former EVP of Samsung Foundries and Head of the Samsung Semiconductor Innovation Center, as its new Chief Executive Officer. Chisari replaces Avicena co-founder Bardia Pezeshki,...
Marvell Expands CXL with CPU and DRAM Interoperability
Marvell announced that its Structera Compute Express Link (CXL) memory-expansion controllers and near-memory accelerators have completed interoperability testing with DDR4 and DDR5 memory from Micron, Samsung, and SK hynix. This...
POET Partners with NTT on Next-Gen Fronthaul Optics
POET Technologies has signed a development partnership with NTT Innovative Devices to co-design a 100G Bidirectional Optical Engine for next-generation mobile front-haul networks. The collaboration combines POET’s Optical Interposer platform...
GlobalFoundries Labs: Silicon Photonics, Quantum Silicon, Advanced Packaging
GlobalFoundries (GF) spotlighted a broad set of technology innovations at its Technology Summit 2025 – North America in Santa Clara, with Dr. Ted Letavic, CTO of Advanced Technology Development, outlining...
GTS25: GlobalFoundries Doubles Down on Silicon Photonics
GlobalFoundries elevated its silicon photonics platform to a standalone product line and doubled investment in the technology, said Kevin Soukup, Senior Vice President, during his keynote at the company’s GTS2025...
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