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A belated shout out to NcodiN who has successfully secured €3.5 million from Elaia, Earlybird Venture Capital, and OVNI Capital. NcodiN has developed an optical interposer that enables high-bandwidth, low-latency optical data communications between chiplets within a processor package.  Its technology unlocks high-speed, reliable and energy-efficient data transmission for adopters, allowing the scaling of their high-end processor architectures dedicated to extremely heavy supercomputing workloads. This makes it possible to scale processor performance to meet the needs of high performance computing and AI — meets the evolving needs of scalers like Nvidia, Intel and Qualcomm — without the limitations of traditional electrical interconnects. I spoke to Francesco Manegatti, PhD, co-founder and CEO to learn more

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🚀 𝐂𝐡𝐢𝐩 𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐧 𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐨𝐥𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: 𝐑𝐀𝐀𝐀𝐌 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐞𝐬 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐦𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐧𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐲 RAAAM™ Memory Technologies, a start-up company that invented a new solution to implement on-chip memory, has completed a Seed financing round of $4 million. Investors include Serpentine Ventures, J-Ventures, Hack Capital, Silicon Catalyst Angels, Claves Investments and large multi-national semiconductor company as a strategic investor. 📣 "RAAAM’s Gain-Cell Random Access Memory (GCRAM) technology is a unique on-chip memory solution that only requires 3 transistors to store a bit of data, as opposed to 6-8 transistors needed for the existing SRAM-based highest-density memory technology", says Robert Giterman, RAAAM Co-Founder and CEO. 📣 "RAAAM, led by an exceptional founding team, is introducing a new on-chip memory category, transforming the silicon industry with a novel approach to higher density and lower power chips", says Michael Stucky, CIO at Serpentine Ventures. #powerelectronics #transistor #chip #semiconductor #silicon https://lnkd.in/eWRXFQMV

A new quantum computing community has emerged from Romania, initiated by Valentin Muresan, co-founder @ Movidius (exited to Intel), and Mihai Udrescu, professor at The Polytechnic University of Timișoara. With this initiative, I expect to see some interesting tech startups launched by community members in the following years. So, if you're interested in the field (& I know I have at least 200 friends here on LinkedIn in quantum computing), join the community :) link in the comment #quantumcomputing #community #ecosystem

Thrilled to announce Next Frontier Capital's investment in Hoonify Technologies Inc. Andrew Clark, Victor Kuhns, and team bring decades of HPC experience from Sandia National Laboratories. Hoonify is NFC's first New Mexico investment! Hoonify’s innovation began by placing supercomputers at the edge – in offices, academic institutions, and homes – and liberating them from the traditional high hurdles of supercomputing. Providing immediate and personal access to this technology improves customer performance by up to 300%, achieving higher efficiencies with lower costs compared with alternative solutions. Currently, Hoonify serves U.S. Government and commercial companies in the aerospace and defense and biotech markets that demand accelerated results for their consequential modeling and simulation, artificial intelligence (AI), and machine learning (ML) workloads. With $3.75m in new funding, Hoonify provides clients supercomputing capabilities typically only available to a select few, will use the new funding to fuel additional growth for product enhancements and to position its software platform, TurbOS for entry into additional markets. TurbOS runs on any Intel CPUs or NVIDIA GPUs to enable faster computing performance through parallel computing - using the customer’s existing hardware or options including Hoonify’s all-in-one Cub Desktop Supercomputer. Let's go!

It's great to be working with this team, who are advancing industry leaders' quantum strategies and investors' due diligence with a rich platform of insights, data, and PhD level expertise. The "leading market analysis site for #quantumcomputing, they provide top tier news, analysis, and data serving an esteemed international audience" #quantumiscoming #quantum #quantumsensing #quantumcomminication

The Silicon Valley!! - A short brief of history. The transistor was successfully demonstrated on Dec. 23, 1947, at Bell Laboratories. The three individuals credited with its invention were William “Bill” Shockley Jr. shockley left his job and founded his own company. where as Bill Hewlett and David Packard, who had graduated three years earlier with degrees in electrical,formed Hewlett-Packard (HP) in a garage. The garage is often referred to as the “Birthplace of Silicon Valley ". The Traitorous Eight Shockley proved himself an arrogant and egoist as boss. his employees left because of his behavior and this led to forming Fairchild Semiconductor with 8 members. Fairchild developed silicon planer transistor. While transistors were relatively easy to mass produce, connections were much more difficult since wires had to be soldered together by hand and took up a lot of space. The industry’s desire to build bigger and more complex systems was stymied by the difficulty in wiring everything together. Trouble at Fairchild Development also met with strong internal resistance. In November 1960, Bay Fairchild's vice demanded termination of the project, with the money saved to instead be allocated to transistor development. Moore refused to help, and Noyce (Founder member of Fairchild) declined to discuss the matter, leaving Last to fight the battle on his own. The conflict flared up barely a month after Fairchild announced the transition of its transistor production from mesa to planar technologies. in this duration Fairchild invented many technologies such as Direct coupled transistor logic Resistors-resistor logic Diode transistor logic TTL NAND GATE Dual in line package Intel formatt Blank, Grinich, Moore and Noyce stayed with Fairchild until 1968. In March of that year, Moore and Noyce decided to leave thereby launching Intel Corp. Fairchildren,” directly or indirectly creating dozens of corporations, including Intel and AMD. In doing so, Fairchild sowed the seeds of innovation across multiple companies in the region that would eventually become known as Silicon Valley. All eight of the original founders eventually left Fairchild and went on to become serial entrepreneurs, co-founding between them a wide variety of new startups, both in semiconductors and venture capital. and rest is history. https://lnkd.in/gedKSr6i

Here Are 6 Actual Uses for Near-Term #Quantum Computers >> https://buff.ly/3IMpTPB #tech #bigtech #SiliconValley #quantumcomputing #quantumcomputers #digital #innovation #disruption #future #business #leadership #research #startups

🌟 Revolutionizing Computing with Chiplets 🌟 This week, I dove deep into the world of chiplets, an innovation set to reshape computing as we know it. So, what are chiplets, and why should we care? Think of chiplets like LEGO blocks. Instead of one big chip (System-on-Chip or SoC), we can now create smaller, specialized chips that handle specific tasks. These mini chips, or chiplets, are connected to work together seamlessly. Here’s why this is a game-changer: 1. Flexibility and Performance: • Mix and match the best tech from different manufacturers for optimal performance. Imagine pairing the top processor with the best memory unit in one powerful system. 2. Cost-Effective and Efficient: • Smaller units mean more efficient manufacturing. If one chiplet is defective, replace it without tossing the whole system, saving time and money. 3. Enhanced Innovation: • Chiplets make advanced tech more accessible. Smaller companies and research institutions can now innovate without needing massive investments. 4. Better Power Efficiency: • Shorter data travel distances save energy and boost performance. This is crucial for high-performance tasks like AI training, making them faster and more sustainable. I’m excited to see how they’ll shape the future of tech. On a different note, we must not ignore the ongoing genocide in Palestine. As we discuss innovations and advancements, let’s remember our responsibility to advocate for human rights and stand against injustices wherever they occur. Free Palestine. #TechInnovation #Chiplets #FutureOfComputing #Innovation #TechStartups #Invygo #FreePalestine

🚀 Exciting news from the PhotonDelta ecosystem! 🚀 MicroAlign, an Eindhoven-based startup, has just secured €1 million in seed funding! This investment, led by DeepTechXL and PhotonVentures, will fast-track the commercialisation of MicroAlign’s high-accuracy fibre arrays. MicroAlign's core technology offers precise position and pitch control of individual fibre cores, essential for applications where every photon matters, like quantum computing. This innovation enables low-loss chip-to-fibre coupling, optimising connections for photonic integrated chips. Their micro-positioning system aligns multiple optical fibres with sub-micron accuracy, ensuring high performance across various applications, including optical switches, amplifiers, laser arrays, co-packaged optics, and quantum computers. MicroAlign’s revolutionary alignment solution minimises loss and maximises efficiency, making it crucial for data centres and AI applications requiring many fibre connections. By ensuring precise alignment, they reduce the cost of potential errors, making their technology indispensable for the photonics industry. Ewit Roos from PhotonVentures shares: “MicroAlign is the only company in Europe that has proven to meet the stringent requirements for fibre alignment in the still small but promising and already very demanding quantum photonic computing domain. With their excellent technology and the continuous focus on customer needs and delivery, I am convinced this MicroAlign team is ready to facilitate successfully the growth of his industry and other sectors that require ultra-low loss fibre coupling solutions’’ For more details, read the full press release here: https://bit.ly/3yIsmc4 #QuantumComputing #PhotonicIntegratedChips #TechFunding #DeepTech #PhotonDeltaEcosystem