Tag: Chip
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UK AI chip startup Fractile raises $220M to tackle the growing inference bottleneck
UK company Fractile has today raised a $220M Series B as it continues to build next-generation inference hardware for AI. The round was led by Accel, Factorial Funds, and Founders Fund, with participation from Conviction, Gigascale, O1A, Felicis, Buckley Ventures and 8VC. Founded in 2022, Fractile is building next-generation inference hardware for frontier AI. Its read more
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Cnuic secures $3M pre-seed to unlock next-generation photonic chip production
Scotland’s Cnuichas raised $3 million in pre-seed funding led by Tensor Ventures, together with the Silicon Valley-based Blank Space Ventures. The round also saw participation from Silicon Roundabout Ventures, Phasechange, SANDS, and Superlative. The company based in Edinburgh has developed a working prototype of a completely new type of photolithography device, which makes use of read more
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OrangeQS extends seed round to €15M as it launches quantum chip testing partnership programme
Quantum chip testing company Orange Quantum Systems (OrangeQS) has announced the second closing of its seed round, extending its funding to €15 million. This follows the first closing in summer 2025, at €12 million. The additional funds come from the European Innovation Council’s (EIC) Fund, which supports European deep tech innovation through venture capital. To read more
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German INCIRT secures €4.8M to power next-gen chip architecture in Europe
INCIRT, an Aachen-based deeptech company, has closed a €4.8 million funding round led by Lifeline Ventures, with participation from High-Tech Gründerfonds. INCIRT is developing a new generation of data converters capable of delivering up to 100 times faster data conversion than conventional approaches. Instead of relying on increasingly smaller and more costly manufacturing nodes, the read more
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UK tech startups urged to take bold risks, by AI minister, as chip startup Fractile invests £100M
UK tech startups are being urged to take bold risks, by the UK’s AI minister,saying the government will back them, as a UK chip startup pledges to invest £100m in its business. The call comes as the UK government looks to make the UK an AI superpower, attracting investment from tech giants to build massive read more
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QuantumDiamonds invests over €150M for quantum chip inspection facility
German quantum sensing company QuantumDiamonds GmbH has announced an investment of more than €150 million to establish a production facility for quantum-based chip metrology systems. The facility, planned for eastern Munich, is expected to receive significant public support from the German federal and Bavarian governments under the European Chips Act. QuantumDiamonds, a spin-off from the read more
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Employee of The Month: Felt Artist Lucy Sparrow Re-Creates Chip Shops, Bodegas, Porn Shops, With All The Inconvenient Details – Hi-Fructose Magazine
As soon as the show opened, it felt like I was on holiday because working the show is a piece of cake compared to the production stage.” Yet, Sparrow persisted. And although her work has continued to rise in reputation, the actual day-to-day process of creating the items that populate these stores is laborious as read more
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