Quantum computing company IonQ announced an expanded relationship with the Air Force Research Lab (AFRL) to deploy two barium-based trapped ion quantum computing systems for quantum networking research and application development. The deal comes one year after IonQ announced an agreement with AFRL to provide access to the company’s trapped ion….
IonQ Announces $25.5M Quantum Deal with U.S. Air Force Research Lab
$100M Series B for Generative AI Platform Writer
SAN FRANCISCO — Writer, a generative AI platform for enterprises, announced its Series B funding round of $100 million today. The round is being led by ICONIQ Growth with participation from WndrCo, Balderton Capital and Insight Partners, who led the Series A, and Aspect Ventures, who led the seed round. This round includes participation from […]
Gen AI Chip Startup d-Matrix Announces $110M in Series B Funding
Santa Clara, Calif. – September 6, 2023 – Gerative AI chip startup d-Matrix has closed $110 million in a Series-B funding round led by Singapore-based global investment firm Temasek. The goal of the fundraise is to enable d-Matrix to begin commercializing Corsair, the world’s first Digital-In Memory Compute (DIMC), chiplet-based inference compute platform, after the […]
Panasas Appoints Ken Claffey CEO, Shea to Remain as COO
SAN JOSE, September 6, 2023 – High performance data storage vendor Panasas has announced that Ken Claffey, former SVP/GM of Enterprise Systems at Seage Technology, has been named CEO. Claffey replaces Tom Shea, who will remain on the Panasas executive leadership team as chief operating officer.
Open Source Hardware Startup Arduino Announces $22M in Series B Funding, Arm Participates in Round
LUGANO, Switzerland—Sept. 6, 2023— Open source hardware company Arduino today announced the closing of an additional $22 million in funding for a total of $54 million in Series B financing. The expansion was co-led by CDP Venture Capital, Italy’s largest VC firm, and Anzu Partners. CDP Venture Capital invested through Large Ventures, its growth stage […]
Arm Introduces Neoverse Compute Subsystems
At Hot Chips today, Arm introduced the Arm Neoverse Compute Subsystems (CSS) designed to enable Arm users to build specialized silicon at lower cost, with less risk and faster time-to-market compared to discrete IP. Available today, Arm CSS N2 is a pre-integrated, PPA-optimized configuration of the Neoverse N2….
atNorth HPC Nordic Colo Acquires Gompute
Stockholm, Aug. 29th, 2023 — atNorth, a Nordic colocation, high-performance computing, and artificial intelligence service provider, has today announced the company’s acquisition of Gompute, a leading provider of high performance computing (HPC) and data center services.