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Liquid Instruments hooks up with $28.5M to upend the engineering testing market with software-defined instrumentation
Engineering innovations are a critical cornerstone in the evolution of technology, but ironically there haven’t been as many innovations in engineers’ tooling itself. Now, a startup called
This startup hopes photonics will get us to AI systems faster
The problem with waiting for quantum computing to bring in the next wave of AI is that it’s likely to arrive a lot slower than people would like. The next best options include increasing the speed o
Crypto mining is approaching a key inflection point
The looming shift in Ethereum from proof of work to proof of stake will have a noticeable impact on the broader crypto market.
Taipei-based computer vision startup eYs3D gets $7M Series A
EYs3D Microelectronics, a fabless design house that focuses on end-to-end software and hardware systems for computer vision technology, has raised a $7 million Series A. Participants included ARM IoT
Who’s building the grocery store of the future?
The future of grocery shopping will be a win-win for both stores and customers.
Power electronics and wireless charging startup Eggtronic raises $10M Series A
Eggtronic, the Italy-founded startup developing power electronics, wireless charging and data over power technology and products, has closed around $10 million in Series A funding. Backing the company
UK government reverses course on Huawei’s involvement in 5G networks
Conservative members of the United Kingdom’s government have pushed Prime Minister Boris Johnson to draw up plans to remove telecom equipment made by the Chinese manufacturer Huawei from the nat
Huawei admits uncertainty following new US chip curbs
Following the U.S. government’s announcement that would further thwart Huawei’s chip-making capability, the Chinese telecoms equipment giant condemned the new ruling for being “arbit
Nvidia begins shipping the A100, its first Ampere-based data center GPU
Nvidia announced today that its NVIDIA A100, the first of its GPUs based on its Ampere architecture, is now in full production and has begun shipping to customers globally. Ampere is a big generationa
Seeqc raises $5M to help make quantum computing commercially viable
Seeqc, a startup that is part of a relatively new class of quantum computing companies that is looking at how to best use classical computing to manage quantum processors, today announced that it has
Nvidia breaks records in training and inference for real-time conversational AI
Nvidia’s GPU-powered platform for developing and running conversational AI that understands and responds to natural language requests has achieved some key milestones and broken some records tha
Nvidia recreates the Apollo 11 landing with real-time ray tracing
It’s the 50th anniversary of the 1969 Apollo 11 Moon landing, and Nvidia is using the anniversary to show off the power of its current GPU technology, using the RTX real-time ray tracing, which
Habana Labs launches its Gaudi AI training processor
Habana Labs, a Tel Aviv-based AI processor startup, today announced its Gaudi AI training processor, which promises to easily beat GPU-based systems by a factor of four. While the individual Gaudi chi
Bill Gates, Neo, Gigafund backing Luminous in photonics supercomputer moonshot
Luminous Computing, a one-year-old startup, is aiming to build a photonics chip that will handle workloads needed for AI at the speed of light. It’s a moonshot and yet, the young company already
Arm announces its new premium CPU and GPU designs
Arm, the company that designs the basic chip architecture for most of the world’s smartphones, today announced the launch of its next suite of designs for premium phones. It’ll be a while
Hailo launches its newest deep learning chip
Hailo, a Tel Aviv-based AI chipmaker, today announced that it is now sampling its Hailo-8 chips, the first of its deep learning processors. The new chip promises up to 26 tera operations per second (T
Researchers find a new material for quantum computing
Rumors of commercial quantum computing systems have been coming hot and heavy these past few years but there are still a number of issues to work out in the technology. For example, researchers at the
Mad scientist shrinks Arduino to size of an AA battery
The hardware tinkerers and prototype mavens out there will invariably have stumbled across the Arduino platform. Completely open source and always pushing the limits for collaboration, there are a ton