Xilinx

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 Liquid Instruments that’s…

Liquid Instruments hooks up with $28.5M to upend the engineering testing market with software-defined instrumentation

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…

NeuReality raises $8M for its novel AI inferencing platform

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…

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

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…

Max Q: Huge week ahead for SpaceX and Virgin 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 use in…

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

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

OctoML raises $15M to make optimizing ML models easier

With the end of Moore’s Law, new semiconductors are required for a cloud-native, data-dominated, AI-powered, IoT world. The rise of new players will put silicon back into Silicon Valley.

The renaissance of silicon will create industry giants

Huawei has finally gone on the record about a ban on its use of Android, but the company’s long-term strategy on mobile still remains unclear. In an effort to appease…

Huawei responds to Android ban with service and security guarantees, but its future is unclear

Several key suppliers are reportedly cutting off Huawei after the Trump administration added the Chinese telecom equipment and smartphone giant to a trade blacklist last week. According to Bloomberg, semiconductor…

Several chip companies, including Qualcomm and Intel, have reportedly stopped supplying Huawei after blacklist