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Modular raises $30M to ease AI development and deployment
Modular Inc., a new artificial intelligence startup led by prominent software engineers, today announced that it has raised $30 million in seed funding. Alphabet Inc.’s GV venture capital arm led the funding round. GV was joined by Greylock, The Factory and SV Angel. Modular is led by co-founder and Chief Executive Officer Chris Lattner, the ...
Samsung starts producing 3-nanometer chips based on new transistor technology
In a major industry milestone, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. today announced that it has begun producing chips using its latest three-nanometer semiconductor manufacturing process. The process will facilitate the creation of faster, more power-efficient chips. It’s also significant for another reason. Samsung’s new process is the first implementation of gate-all-around, or GAA, technology, a new ...
Nvidia and Google win top spots in MLPerf Training machine learning competition
Nvidia Corp. and Google LLC have won top spots in the MLPerf Training machine learning competition, the organization that hosts the competition detailed today. MLPerf Training is run by the MLCommons Association, an industry group that develops open-source AI tools. Participants in the competition test how quickly they can train a series of neural networks ...
TigerGraph updates cloud database with new security and productivity features
TigerGraph Inc. today introduced a new version of TigerGraph Cloud, its managed graph database service, that will enable companies to extract insights from their data more easily and securely. Redwood City, California-based TigerGraph is a database startup backed by more than $170 million in funding. Its customers include major enterprises such as Microsoft Corp. and ...
E-commerce technology startup Nautical Commerce nabs $30M in funding
Startup Nautical Commerce Inc., which provides technology for building e-commerce marketplaces, today said it has secured a $30 million investment led by Drive Capital. Existing backers Accomplice Ventures and Golden Ventures participated as well. The round brings Nautical Commerce’s total outside funding to $33.2 million. New York-based Nautical Commerce provides a software platform that promises to ...
Google launches public sector division for cloud services
Google LLC is forming a new division that will focus on helping public sector organizations use its cloud services. The move was announced today by Google Cloud Chief Executive Officer Thomas Kurian. According to Kurian, the division will work with federal, state and local governments, as well as educational institutions. The new division is known ...
Arm debuts new mobile chips with speed and security improvements
Chip design giant Arm Ltd. today introduced its latest central processing units and graphics processing units for the mobile device market. U.K.-based Arm doesn’t manufacture chips, but rather designs semiconductor blueprints that hardware makers use to build processors. The company’s technology powers billions of devices worldwide. Arm has a particularly strong presence in the mobile ...
Cryptocurrency data provider Kaiko closes $53M investment
Kaiko, a startup that provides market data about the digital asset ecosystem to financial institutions, has secured $53 million in fresh funding to support growth initiatives. The company announced the funding round this morning. The lead investor was Eight Roads, while Revaia, Alven, Point9, Anthemis and VC Underscore participated as well. Paris-based Kaiko, incorporated as Challenger ...
Micron debuts new data center SSD based on 176-layer flash technology
Micron Technology Inc. today debuted the Micron 5400, a new solid-state drive for data centers that’s based on the company’s latest 176-layer flash storage technology. Micron is a major supplier of storage and memory chips that generated $27.7 billion in revenue last year. Its chips can be found in a variety of devices ranging from ...
GlobalWafers to build $5B chip wafer factory in the US
Taiwan-based GlobalWafers Co., a major supplier of the silicon wafers used to make central processing units and other chips, plans to build a $5 billion silicon wafer plant in Sherman, Texas. The Wall Street Journal reported the plan today. A wafer is a semiconducting disc made largely of silicon that is used to manufacture chips. ...