Startup Funding: Q1 2026


The new year started off with a bang for private semiconductor companies, with 18 garnering mega funding rounds exceeding $100 million, and two, Rapidus and Cerebras, reaching the $1 billion mark. Predictably, the vast majority of those are either designing chips primarily for AI inference workloads or attempting to overcome bandwidth limitations by improving interconnects from the chip level t... » read more

Quantum Technologies: Innovation and Investment


Q2B25 Silicon Valley, being held this week in Santa Clara, California, is billed as "The Roadmap to Quantum Value," focusing on practical quantum technologies. This is the eighth consecutive year for the conference. Quantum computing is not typically an area that I cover, although I do have one other previous article, Leaps in Quantum Computing, that I wrote about two years ago that focused ... » read more

Startup Funding: June 2023


June saw several large funding rounds, with seven of at least $100 million. Over half a billion dollars alone went to a Chinese company manufacturing silicon carbide (SiC) power semiconductors. The wide band gap material has seen steady interest from investors, particularly for its potential use in electric vehicles. Another of the month's mega-rounds went to a company designing RISC-V SoCs ... » read more