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| 29.03.2026 | Kandou AI: $225 Million Raised For AI Connectivity And Memory Bottleneck Solutions | Kandou AI, a fabless semiconductor design company focused on high-speed, energy-efficient connectivity solutions, announced it has raised $225 million in an oversubscribed Series A funding round to address critical data movement challenges ... |
| 27.03.2026 | European Deep Tech Attracts Mega Capital: AI, Robotics, Biotech, and Climate Solutions Secure Major Funding | European startups attract massive capital. Kandou AI leads with $225 million for AI infrastructure connectivity, breaking memory bottlenecks. Interloom secured $16.5 million for business automation software. Kewazo raised $15 million to rev... |
| 25.03.2026 | Kandou AI bekommt 225 Millionen – Interloom sammelt 16,5 Millionen ein – Kewazo streicht 15 Millionen ein | Im #DealMonitor für den 25. März werfen wir einen Blick auf die wichtigsten, spannendsten und interessantesten Investments und Exits des Tages in der DACH-Region. Alle Deals der Vortage gibt es im großen und übersichtlichen #DealMonitor-Arc... |
| 24.03.2026 | Kandou AI Closes USD225M Series A Funding | Kandou AI, a Saint-Sulpice, Switzerland-based developer of high-speed, energy-efficient connectivity and system solutions for the AI era, closed a $225m Series A funding round.
The round was led by Maverick Silicon with participation from S... |
| 23.03.2026 | Kandou AI closes $225m Series A round to break memory bottlenecks in AI |
As artificial intelligence models grow exponentially, the industry faces a fundamental roadblock: GPUs and CPUs need to be connected to an exponentially growing memory footprints leading to memory and interconnect bandwidth becoming key bo... |
| 05.03.2026 | Ayar Labs Ignites AI Future with $500 Million CPO Funding | Ayar Labs secured $500 million in Series E funding. This valuation reached $3.75 billion. The total capital raised now stands at $870 million. Neuberger Berman led the round. Key investors like ARK Invest, Insight Partners, and Qatar Invest... |
| 03.03.2026 | Ayar Labs: $500 Million Series E Raised At $3.75 Billion Valuation For Optics Solutions For AI Scale-Up | Ayar Labs, a provider of co-packaged optics solutions for AI scale-up, announced the closing of a $500 million Series E funding round led by Neuberger Berman. The financing brings the company’s total funding to $870 million and values the b... |
| 03.03.2026 | Ayar Labs Raises $500M in Series E Funding | Ayar Labs, a San Jose, CA-based company which specializes in co-packaged optics (CPO) solutions, raised $500M in Series E funding, at $3.75 Billion valuation.
The round was led by Neuberger Berman with participation from ARK Invest, Insight... |
| 27.02.2026 | MatX Secures $500M: Redefining AI Chip Future for Large Language Models | MatX secured a monumental $500 million Series B funding. This capital turbocharges MatX One AI chip development. The specialized processor targets large language models exclusively. Its core is a revolutionary splittable systolic array arch... |
| 26.02.2026 | MatX: $500 Million Series B Raised To Accelerate MatX One LLM Chip Development | MatX, an AI chip startup founded by former Google hardware engineers, announced that it has raised a $500 million Series B funding round to complete development and scale manufacturing of its next-generation processor, the MatX One. The fun... |
| 24.01.2026 | AheadComputing Fuels AI CPU Revolution with $30 Million Funding | AheadComputing, a Portland-based IP design innovator, secured an additional $30 million in Seed2 funding. This brings its total capital raised to $53 million. The investment fuels development of high-performance RISC-V CPUs. These processor... |
| 22.01.2026 | AheadComputing Inc. Raises Additional $30M Seed2 Round to Reimagine CPU Architecture | The company will use the follow-on seed to advance the development of its high-performance CPU microarchitecture designed for the surging compute demands of AI workloads
PORTLAND, Ore., Jan. 22, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- AheadComputing, Inc., th... |
| 22.01.2026 | AheadComputing Raises Additional $30 Million Seed2 Round To Reimagine CPU Architecture | AheadComputing, a Portland, Oregon-based IP design house developing high-performance RISC-V CPU cores, has raised an additional $30 million in a Seed2 financing round, bringing total funding to $53 million. The round was co-led by Eclipse, ... |
| 21.01.2026 | AheadComputing Raises Additional $30M in Seed2 Funding | AheadComputing, a Portland, OR-based microarchitecture compute performance company, raised additional $30M in Seed2 funding.
The round was led by Eclipse, Toyota Ventures, and Cambium, with participation from Corner, Trousdale Ventures, EPI... |
| 18.11.2025 | Playground Global Showcases the Future of Compute in Taiwan | New companies, products and partnerships highlight Taiwan's role in accelerating deep tech
TAIPEI, Nov. 18, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Playground Global, the leading deep tech venture capital firm, today announced new companies, innovations, and ... |
| 10.10.2025 | Light-based networking takes aim at AI’s growing data bottlenecks
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| 16.06.2025 | Astera Labs and Alchip Announce Strategic Partnership to Advance Silicon Ecosystem for AI Rack-Scale Connectivity | Hyperscalers benefit from seamless integration of purpose-built compute and connectivity solutions to rapidly deploy AI infrastructure at scale
Astera Labs, a leading provider of purpose-built connectivity solutions for AI and cloud infrast... |
| 19.05.2025 | Nvidia announces new tech to keep it at the center of AI development | Nvidia’s new “NVLink Fusion” program will allow customers and partners to use non-Nvidia CPUs and GPUs in tandem with Nvidia’s products and NVLink.
“NV link fusion is so that you can build semi-custom AI infrastructure, not just semi-custom... |
| 19.05.2025 | Nvidia’s strategic shift aims to cement its role at the core of global AI | Nvidia CEO Jensen Juang
Nvidia has unveiled a new raft of technologies aimed at sustaining the boom in demand for AI computing — and ensuring that its products stay at the centre of the action.
CEO Jensen Huang on Monday kicked off Computex... |
| 16.05.2025 | The AI Chip Race: A New Era of Independence Amid Geopolitical Strains | The world of artificial intelligence is in a state of flux. The race for AI chip supremacy is heating up, driven by geopolitical tensions and a quest for independence. Major players in the U.S. and China are redefining the landscape of AI h... |
| 15.05.2025 | Geopolitical Tensions Fuel a Wave of AI Chip Independence as US and Chinese CSPs Race to Develop In-House ASICs, Redefining the Market Landscape, Says TrendForce | TAIPEI, May 15, 2025 /PRNewswire/ --TrendForce's latest research reveals that the surge in demand for AI servers is accelerating the pace at which major US CSPs are developing in-house ASICs, with new iterations being released every one to ... |
| 24.12.2024 | The Shifting Sands of Work and Technology: Amazon's Office Dilemma and the Rise of Custom AI Chips | In the ever-evolving landscape of work and technology, two stories stand out. One is Amazon's struggle to bring employees back to the office. The other is the meteoric rise of custom AI chip manufacturers. Both narratives reflect a broader ... |
| 19.12.2024 | A Chip Company You Probably Never Heard of Is Suddenly Worth $1 Trillion. Here's Why, and What It Means for Nvidia. Nvidia currently has an estimated 90% of the market share of advanced AI chips, but ... |
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The rise of AI, and the computing power it requires, is bringing all kinds of previously under-the-radar companies into the limelight. This week, it's Broadcom.
Its stock has soared sin... |
| 08.03.2024 | Alchip Technologies Sets 2023 Financial Records | - |
| 23.11.2023 | Alchip Unveils Industry’s First Automotive ASIC Design Platform | Alchip Technologies, Ltd. rolled out the semiconductor industry’s first Automotive ASIC platform at the Design Solutions Forum 2023. The platform targets the specialized needs of the global automotive industry.
The Automotive platform strea... |
| 10.01.2022 | proteanTecs and Alchip Bring Production Visibility to Advanced ASICs | TAIPEI, Taiwan and HAIFA, Israel, Jan. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- proteanTecs, a global leader in deep data solutions for electronics health and performance monitoring, announced today a commercial agreement with Alchip Technologies Ltd., a l... |
| 10.01.2022 | proteanTecs and Alchip Bring Production Visibility to Advanced ASICs | TAIPEI, Taiwan and HAIFA, Israel, Jan. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- proteanTecs, a global leader in deep data solutions for electronics health and performance monitoring, announced today a commercial agreement with Alchip Technologies Ltd., a l... |