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SiMa.ai raised $70 million from Maverick Capital, Point72, Jericho, Amplify Partners, Dell Technologies Capital, and Fidelity Management. The startup designs chips for AI applications in consumer devices to process data into different content forms for a future where AI is mainstream.

SiMa Raises Funds: SiMa.ai is one of a growing number of startups trying to perfect hardware for a future where AI is mainstream. Founded in 2018, it counts Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. director Moshe Gavrielov and Intel Corp. board member Lip‑Bu Tan among its own board members.

Rebellions, a South Korean fabless AI chip startup, said today it has closed $124 million (165 billion KRW) in a Series B round of funding to develop its third AI chip, called Rebel. This Series B values the three-year-old startup at approximately $658 million (880 billion KRW) post-money, CFO of Rebellions Sungkyue Shin said in an exclusive interview with TechCrunch. This latest capital infusion brings the total raised to around $210 million since Rebellions' inception in 2020.

Rebellions, a South Korean fabless AI chip startup, said today it has closed $124 million (165 billion KRW) in a Series B round of funding to develop its third AI chip, called Rebel. This Series B values the three-year-old startup at approximately $658 million (880 billion KRW) post-money, CFO of Rebellions Sungkyue Shin said in an exclusive interview with TechCrunch. This latest capital infusion brings the total raised to around $210 million since Rebellions' inception in 2020.

As generative AI technology matures, d-Matrix has the chips that helps make their everyday use a reality.

Apple accused the startup and the employees in a lawsuit of luring away its engineers and stealing proprietary information used to develop its homegrown chip designs.

Apple accused the startup and the employees in a lawsuit of luring away its engineers and stealing proprietary information used to develop its homegrown chip designs.

UltraSense makes a chip that uses ultrasound waves to detect when a person has tapped on a solid surface.

Rapidus, a venture backed by some of Japan's biggest electronics firms, is turning IBM's 2-nanometer chip design into production-ready silicon and aims to fabricate such chips

Apple claims that Corellium simply repackaged iOS in a different format for profit. Apple faced a major defeat after failing to convince the US Court that Corellium is infringing its copyrights by simulating its own operating system to help developers find security flaws in its devices.