ChangXin Memory Technologies has nearly completed R&D verification for LPDDR6 smartphone memory at speeds of up to 12.8Gbps, China Business News reported. This is one of the final technical stages before trial production. CXMT could begin mass prod…
The AI hardware conversation is stuck on one word: compute. A startup out of Tel Aviv wants to change the word to memory. Majestic Labs, founded in 2023 by former Google and Meta engineers, has unveiled a server it says can do the work of a rack of Nvi…
Sequoia Capital led a $1 billion Series B for Valar Atomics, valuing the nuclear startup at $6 billion. That is three times the $2 billion valuation from its earlier round just months ago. Atreides Management, Point72, and Snowpoint Ventures also parti…
The usual story about Nvidia is a hardware story: the fastest chips, in the shortest supply, at the highest price. The more important part is software. For two decades the company’s real moat has been CUDA. It is the layer that turns its silicon into s…
A home-battery company that did not exist three years ago is now worth $13bn. Base Power has raised $1bn in a Series D and launched its own battery, Base Core. The bet behind the number is blunt: the grid cannot keep up with America’s power demand, and…
A South Korean chip designer few outside the industry have heard of just became a $2.2bn company. DeepX has signed the first tranche of a Series D round that values it at roughly four times its previous mark. And it is not finished raising. The first s…
The AI boom needs colossal amounts of electricity. That has turned fusion, forever mocked as “30 years away,” into one of the hottest bets in tech. The best-funded player just raised another $1 billion. Commonwealth Fusion Systems, based in Massachuset…
Most satellite startups are racing to build smaller. K2 Space is going the other way, on purpose. Investors just handed it $500 million to keep going bigger. K2 raised a $500 million Series D at a $6.8 billion valuation, it said on Thursday. Kleiner Pe…
The AI boom made GPUs famous. The dull chips that wire thousands of those GPUs together are quietly becoming just as valuable. Xsight Labs, an Israeli chipmaker, has raised more than $300 million at a $2.8 billion valuation, it said on Thursday. Fideli…
The US wanted to keep Chinese robots out. Beijing’s answer: do this, and we will hit back where it hurts. China has threatened “resolute” retaliation after Washington moved to bar imports of Chinese-made humanoid robots. Its commerce ministry called th…