China’s call to foster semiconductor independence has sent investors chasing after chip startups of all sorts. Moffett AI, a Shenzhen-based chip design company, has received a fresh Series A injection. The company did not disclose the exact amount, only saying that the proceeds were in the “several tens of millions of dollars.” The round was […]
あらゆる電子機器が入手困難になった2021年、誰もが「半導体」の重要性を再認識させられた
コロナ禍において世界経済はさまざまな分野で大きな影響を受けたが、そのひとつが半導体業界だろう。深刻化した半導体不足は、いまや自動車から家電、PC、ゲーム機まで、さまざまな商品の供給停滞を招いている。2021年は半導体の重要性を誰もが再認識させられた年として、歴史に刻まれることになるだろう。
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SK Hynix gets China approval to take over Intel’s NAND business
South Korean chipmaker SK Hynix said on Wednesday it has received merger clearance from the Chinese antitrust authority for its $9 billion acquisition of Intel Corp’s NAND and SSD (solid-state drive) business, clearing the final hurdle to completion of securing regulatory approval in eight jurisdictions. Last October, the U.S. chip giant and SK Hynix reached the […]
Astera Labs, a fabless chip startup, nabs $50M at a $950M valuation to remove bottlenecks in high-bandwidth cloud applications
As more enterprises migrate to cloud-based architectures, they are also taking on more applications (because they can) and, as a result of that, more complex workloads and storage needs. Machine learning and other artificial intelligence applications add even more complexity. Now a startup that has built technology to make that process move faster and more […]
China roundup: Keep down internet upstarts, cultivate hard tech
Hello and welcome back to TechCrunch’s China roundup, a digest of recent events shaping the Chinese tech landscape and what they mean to people in the rest of the world. The tech industry in China has had quite a turbulent week. The government is upending its $100 billion private education sector, wiping billions from the […]