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Rogue Valley Microdevices: MEMS Foundry

 Oregon-based specialty fab takes different approach.
Published on March 13th,  2019 by Ed Sperling

February’19 Startup Funding: Big Cash Keeps Rolling In

 A month with a trio of billion-dollar rounds.
Published on March 7th,  2019 by Jeff Dorsch

January’19 Startup Funding: $100M+ Rounds Abound

 Billion-dollar funding rounds become more common.
Published on January 30th,  2019 by Jeff Dorsch

December’18 Startup Funding: Big Rounds As 2018 Ends

 Mobility pulls in half of the $100M-plus funding rounds.
Published on January 3rd,  2019 by Jeff Dorsch

Kumu Networks: Full Duplex on One Channel

 Well-funded startup offers self-interference cancellation tech for single-frequency transmit and receive.
Published on January 3rd,  2019 by Jeff Dorsch

A New Approach to Metrology

 Startup has a new leading-edge technology in metrology based on differential Hall effect microscopy.
Published on December 14th,  2018 by Jeff Dorsch

November’18 Startup Funding: Big Deals Dominate

 Nine-figure funding rounds were common in November.
Published on December 7th,  2018 by Jeff Dorsch

Training a Neural Network to Fall

 A cautionary tale of an early attempt to put AI on an IoT system that detects when elderly people fall.
Published on December 6th,  2018 by Susan Rambo

AI Accelerator Gyrfalcon Soars Post Stealth

 Second generation inference accelerator ASIC targets the datacenter.
Published on November 12th,  2018 by Kevin Fogarty

October’18 Startup Funding: IoT, Security, Auto

 Funding flows to a variety of startups; M&A in security.
Published on November 2nd,  2018 by Jeff Dorsch

Zeno Semi Expands On-Chip Memory

 Shrinking SRAM expands on-chip memory with standard CMOS, FinFET.
Published on October 30th,  2018 by Kevin Fogarty

Startup Puts Quantum Security on USB, Dongles

 Taking quantum-mechanical principles and dragging them kicking and screaming into the real world.
Published on October 16th,  2018 by Kevin Fogarty

Baum: Finding SoC Power Flaws

 Identifying power design flaws early with time/power-use analysis.
Published on August 28th,  2018 by Kevin Fogarty

Carbon Nanotube DRAM

 Is carbon nanotube memory too good to be true?
Published on August 23rd,  2018 by Susan Rambo

Syntiant: Analog Deep Learning Chips

 Intel Capital funds startup to put AI in low-power mobile devices.
Published on June 12th,  2018 by Kevin Fogarty

Spark Microsystems: LP On-Chip Radios

 Startup seeks to displace BLE with RF that is extremely low energy.
Published on April 2nd,  2018 by Kevin Fogarty

Xceler Systems: Graph Architecture

 Startup building AI chip like a brain, a few synapses at a time.
Published on March 19th,  2018 by Kevin Fogarty

Ayar Labs: Faster I/O

 Processer I/O made of fiber, not copper, could help reconfigure data centers.
Published on February 19th,  2018 by Kevin Fogarty

Babblabs: Deep Learning Speech Processing

 Startup to apply deep learning technology to advanced speech processing.
Published on January 26th,  2018 by Ann Steffora Mutschler

PowerDown: Power Efficiency

 Recycling power used in one chip cycle to run the other can save 90% over pulling straight from the battery.
Published on January 15th,  2018 by Kevin Fogarty


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