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By Zach Winn In biology, defects are generally bad. But in materials science, defects can be intentionally tuned to give materials useful new properties. Today, atomic-scale defects are carefully introduced during the manufacturing process of products like steel, semiconductors, and solar cells to help improve strength, control electrical conductivity, optimize performance, and more. But even […]
Read full articleSan Francisco startup Altara has raised $7 million in seed funding led by Greylock, with participation from Neo, BoxGroup, Liquid 2 Ventures, and Jeff Dean, to build an AI platform that unifies fragmented technical data for hardware-intensive industries including batteries, semiconductors, and medical devices. Founded in 2025 by Eva Tuecke, a former Fermilab physicist and […]
S-1 filings have been plentiful the past few weeks for venture-backed startups providing semiconductors, nuclear and geothermal power, biotech, and space and defense tech queuing up for a possible trip to the public markets.
Cadence Design Systems announced two AI-related collaborations at its CadenceLIVE event this week, expanding its work with Nvidia and introducing new integrations with Google Cloud. The Nvidia partnership focuses on combining AI with physics-based simulation and accelerated computing for robotic systems and system-level design. The companies said the approach targets modelling and deployment across semiconductors, […] The post Cadence expands AI and robotic partnerships with Nvidia, Google Cloud appeared first on AI News.
More efficient artificial intelligence could mean even greater need for semiconductors, say experts
While no billion-dollar rounds led this week’s list, we nonetheless saw a variety of startups in industries ranging from semiconductors to aerospace to biotech raise sizable rounds.
