For decades, chipmakers have sought to make semiconductors faster by shrinking silicon transistors and packing more of them on each chip. But shrinking transistors comes…
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AI infrastructure company Cornelis raises $205M to chip away at Nvidia’s dominance |
Cornelis, a company creating networking technology to help AI chips communicate more effectively, announced Monday that it has raised $205 million in a funding round…
Mobility: The custom chip driving Waymo’s robotaxi ambitions |
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation. To get this in your inbox, sign…
AI chip startup Etched defies skeptics, hits $10.3B valuation from big-name investors |
Etched, the AI chip startup founded by three Harvard dropouts in 2022, has closed a $300 million Series C funding round at a $10.3 billion…
Science Corporation's vision-restoring chip wins EU approval |
Science Corporation, a startup developing novel brain-computer interfaces (BCI), won approval from Europe’s medical device regulator to begin selling a device that restores vision lost…
Nvidia Wants to Own Every Chip Inside AI Data Centers
Nvidia is hyping up its new Vera Rubin chip system this week, revealing new performance benchmarks for the GPU and CPU combo ahead of rival…
IBM Unveils Sub-1 Nanometer Chip Technology
Jul 13, 2026 IBM is unveiling a major semiconductor breakthrough with the introduction of the world’s first sub-1 nanometer (nm) chip technology, featuring a revolutionary…
With EU backing, QuantumDiamonds aims to speed up chip manufacturing |
The race to produce more chips is on, and Europe is in. ASML, the Dutch company that has a near-monopoly on manufacturing the machines used…
AI chip maker SambaNova raises $1B at $11B valuation, 5 months after last mega round |
AI chip company SambaNova Systems has raised $1 billion at an $11 billion valuation led by General Atlantic, in a first close of its Series…
Nvidia competitor Etched hits $5B valuation, $1B in sales for AI chip |
Nvidia AI chip competitor Etched issued a progress report on Tuesday, after TSMC successfully manufactured its chip earlier this year. The startup says it has…