ChipAgents Raises $21 Million Series A to Accelerate AI-Powered Chip Design and Verification Platform

Sales 50x YoY, Deployments at 50 leading semiconductor companies. Former CEOs of Cadence and Mentor Graphics, Plus Former Synopsys CTO, Join Advisory Board. ChipAgents, the agentic AI platform transforming chip design and verification, announced the close of a $21 million Series A funding round, bringing the total fundraise to $24 million to date. This latest round closed with Besseme...

22 Oct 2025 | Wednesday | NEWS
Vertical Semiconductor Raises $11 Million to Redefine Power Delivery for AI Data Centres

Vertical Semiconductor, a pioneering spin-out from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), has raised $11 million in seed funding to accelerate development of its vertical GaN (gallium nitride) transistors — a breakthrough set to redefine how power is delivered to AI chips in data centres. The company’s technology brings power conversion closer to the chip, easing data-cent...

21 Oct 2025 | Tuesday | NEWS
Frore Systems Launches LiquidJet™ to Redefine Liquid Cooling for AI Data Centres

Frore Systems announced the launch of LiquidJet™, a revolutionary direct-to-chip liquid cooling 3D coldplate solution designed to meet the escalating demands of AI Data Centers. Built with Frore's unique semiconductor manufacturing process adapted to metal wafers, LiquidJet unlocks higher performance from the world's most powerful GPUs—starting with NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra—...

21 Oct 2025 | Tuesday | NEWS
NEXT Semiconductor Unveils NXLR1 LiDAR Processor SoC for Next-Generation Autonomous Vehicles

The NXLR1 Lidar Processor Unit (LPU) enables enhanced long range LiDAR perception for automotive ADAS and autonomous vehicles. NEXT Semiconductor Technologies has developed a LiDAR Processor System-On-Chip (SoC) component to address the growing market for LiDAR sensors sourcing data for AI-enhanced autonomous vehicles. The immediate addressable market for LiDAR sensors includes on-orbit sa...

21 Oct 2025 | Tuesday | NEWS
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang to Join APEC CEO Summit in South Korea

Jensen Huang, the chief executive of NVIDIA, is scheduled to participate in the upcoming Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) CEO Summit in South Korea, which runs from October 28 to 31. NVIDIA said Huang will engage with global heads of state and senior Korean executives, including representatives of giants such as Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix. In a statement, the compa...

20 Oct 2025 | Monday | NEWS
Chip Stocks Race Higher After Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) Signals Strong AI-Driven Demand

Asian semiconductor equities climbed sharply on Thursday following TSMC’s unexpectedly strong forecast for the year, as the company pointed to robust demand for high-performance chips used in artificial-intelligence infrastructure. TSMC reported a record quarterly profit and raised its full-year revenue outlook, citing major customers ranging from Nvidia and Apple to global d...

20 Oct 2025 | Monday | NEWS
Fibocom Launches 5G FWA Portfolio Powered by Qualcomm® X85 and X82 to Drive Intelligent Connectivity Across Homes, Enterprises, and Mobility

Fibocom, a leading global provider of wireless communication modules and AI solutions, announced the launch of its new 5G FWA (Fixed Wireless Access) portfolio powered by Qualcomm Technologies Inc.'s X85 and X82 Modem-RF Systems at NetworkX 2025. The lineup includes the high-performance 5G modules FG200/FG201, alongside customized device solutions for indoor CPE, outdoor ODU, and mobile hotspots...

17 Oct 2025 | Friday | NEWS
SuperX Unveils GB300 NVL72 System, a Rack-Scale AI Supercomputer Powered by NVIDIA Grace Blackwell Ultra for Trillion-Parameter Model Training

SuperX AI Technology Limited  announced the launch of the SuperX GB300 NVL72 System, a groundbreaking, rack-scale AI supercomputing platform powered by the NVIDIA GB300 Grace Blackwell Ultra Superchip. Designed to conquer the physical and computational limits of training and deploying next-generation trillion-parameter models, the liquid-cooled GB300 System delivers a significant leap in pe...

17 Oct 2025 | Friday | NEWS
Ceva Expands Semiconductor Leadership with Bluetooth 6.0 Channel Sounding to Power Secure Spatial Awareness and Physical AI at the Smart Edge

Ceva strengthens its leadership as a trusted single source for advancing the smart edge, with Bluetooth® 6.0 Channel Sounding for secure spatial awareness enabling on-device intelligence and Physical AI  As industries demand greater positioning accuracy, security, and reliability for wireless connectivity, Bluetooth® 6.0 emerges as a critical enabler for next-generation high perfor...

16 Oct 2025 | Thursday | NEWS
MediaTek and NVIDIA Extend Partnership to Power a New Era of Personal AI Supercomputing

Continues MediaTek's long history of collaboration with NVIDIA to advance AI innovation from supercomputers to vehicles, IoT devices, data center solutions, and beyond  MediaTek has teamed with NVIDIA on the design of the GB10 Grace Blackwell Superchip in NVIDIA DGX Spark, a personal AI supercomputer that allows developers to prototype, fine-tune, and inference large AI models on the ...

16 Oct 2025 | Thursday | NEWS
Hammerspace and Xsight Labs Partner to Flatten AI Storage Architecture, Eliminating Legacy Servers and Cutting Data TCO in Half

New architecture eliminates legacy servers, slashing data storage TCO, and unlocks 800Gbps direct GPU-to-flash storage performance for the most demanding gigawatt-scale AI token factories News Highlights: This collaboration advances the Open Flash Platform (OFP) vision of a democratized, efficient, and radically simplified data storage infrastructure; offering >10x storage density, 90% ...

15 Oct 2025 | Wednesday | NEWS
Insyde Software Joins Arm Total Design to Accelerate AI-Ready Silicon Innovation

Insyde Software, a leading global provider of UEFI and OpenBMC-based firmware,  announced that it has joined Arm® Total Design, a collaborative ecosystem designed to simplify and accelerate custom silicon development powered by Arm Neoverse™ Compute Subsystems (CSS). In close alignment with Arm’s shift-left approach, Insyde empowers AI infrastructure providers to validate c...

15 Oct 2025 | Wednesday | NEWS
Johnson Controls Expands Silent-Aire Platform with Scalable CDU Solutions for AI-Driven Data Centres in Asia Pacific

Silent-Aire CDUs offer scalable cooling from 500kW to 10MW for high-density data centres in Asia Pacific Flexible, space-saving design with built-in redundancy helps achieve maximum availability and rapid deployment in dense urban markets like Singapore Johnson Controls full thermal portfolio can cut non-IT energy use by up to 50%, boosting efficiency even in warm-climate data cent...

14 Oct 2025 | Tuesday | NEWS
Getac Launches S510AD Rugged Copilot+ PC Powered by AMD Ryzen™ AI for Next-Generation Edge Intelligence

The new S510AD joins the B360 Plus, F120 and next generation UX10 in Getac's rapidly growing lineup of Copilot+ PCs. Powered by AMD Ryzen™ AI technology, the S510AD delivers strong on-device AI performance, supporting faster insights and reducing reliance on cloud connectivity where applications allow. The S510AD is ideally suited to professionals working in industries including a...

14 Oct 2025 | Tuesday | NEWS
WiMi Explores Quantum Dilated Convolutional Neural Networks to Advance AI Efficiency and Accuracy

WiMi Hologram Cloud Inc. (NASDAQ: WiMi) ("WiMi" or the "Company"), a leading global Hologram Augmented Reality ("AR") Technology provider, today announced that active exploration is underway in the field of Quantum Dilated Convolutional Neural Networks (QDCNN) technology. This technology is expected to break through the limitations of traditional convolutional neural networks in handling complex d...

14 Oct 2025 | Tuesday | NEWS
InPsytech Showcases 3nm UCIe 3.0 Technology at OCP Global Summit 2025

 InPsytech, a subsidiary of Egis Technology (6462.TWO) specializing in high-speed interface intellectual property (IP) development, announced  that it will participate in the Open Compute Project (OCP) Global Summit 2025, to be held in San Jose, California, from October 13–16, 2025. At the event, InPsytech will showcase its latest 3nm UCIe high-speed interface technology dem...

14 Oct 2025 | Tuesday | NEWS
China Intensifies Semiconductor Import Crackdown to Boost Domestic AI Chip Production

China has launched a sweeping crackdown on semiconductor imports as part of its push to reduce reliance on U.S. technology and accelerate self-sufficiency in advanced computing. Over recent weeks, customs teams stationed at major ports have intensified inspections of chip shipments, with particular scrutiny on processors supplied by U.S. chipmaker Nvidia, according to multiple industry sources....

13 Oct 2025 | Monday | NEWS
Cadence Giving Foundation Expands AI Hub at San José State University to Train Future AI Leaders

The Cadence Giving Foundation  announced a multi-year commitment to expand the AI Hub at San José State University (SJSU) to equip students with the skills, hands-on training and experience needed to excel in careers in artificial intelligence (AI). This multi-year agreement will also include a significant donation of AI design software and digital twin technology to SJSU from Caden...

13 Oct 2025 | Monday | NEWS
Smartkem, Inc. Signs LOI with Jericho Energy Ventures to Build U.S. AI Infrastructure Using Organic Semiconductor Technology

Smartkem, Inc. (Nasdaq: SMTK), ("Smartkem"), a company developing a new class of organic semiconductor technology, announced that it has signed a non-binding Letter of Intent ("LOI") with Jericho Energy Ventures Inc. (TSX-V: JEV, OTC: JROOF) ("Jericho" or "JEV"), an energy innovation company, for a proposed all-stock business combination (the "Proposed Transaction"). If completed, the Proposed T...

10 Oct 2025 | Friday | NEWS
Quilter Raises $25 Million from Index Ventures to Revolutionise Hardware Design with Physics-Driven AI

Index Ventures backs Quilter to automate circuit board design, a trillion-dollar bottleneck found in everything from phones to fighter jets. Quilter, the first and only company to publicly demonstrate fully autonomous PCB layout through physics-driven AI, announced $25 million in Series B funding led by Index Ventures. The investment comes as Fortune 500 aerospace, defense, and consum...

9 Oct 2025 | Thursday | NEWS