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Silicon wafer fabrication Tiger Global, D1 Lead $300 Million Round in AI Chip Startup Groq Its CEO, a former Google chip exec, said the startup now has enough money to fund the business until it generates positive free cash flow. Bloomberg | Apr 15, 2021 Ian King (Bloomberg) -- Groq Inc., a semiconductor startup, said it raised $300 million in a round led by Tiger Global Management and D1 Capital. The investment brings Groq’s total funding to $367 million and values the Mountain View, C...

This Startup Is Building a Chip to Save Traders Vital Microseconds South Korea-based Rebellions aims to build a chip that runs AI more efficiently to speed up high-frequency trades. Bloomberg | Apr 14, 2021 Hooyeon Kim and Whanwoong Choi (Bloomberg) -- In the unfathomably fast realm of high-frequency trading, a South Korean startup’s plan to build a microchip that speeds markets up by a few microseconds is bound to get some attention. The company, Rebellions Inc., was set up six month...

Opinion post by Robert Triggs Rumor has it that the Google Pixel 6 will debut Google’s long-rumored custom smartphone silicon, codenamed “Whitechapel.” In other words, the Pixel 6 appears set to ditch Qualcomm’s Snapdragon brand for something built in-house with the help of Samsung’s System Large-scale Integration (SLSI) division. Those are the folks at Samsung that integrate CPU cores, memory, modems, and other integrated circuit components into a single silicon chip (SoC). Pundits h...

It is being reported that Samsung has helped Google in developing a high-end 5nm processor for the Pixel 6 smartphone lineup. - SamMobile

Buy now! ☕ Good morning! I had a nice Easter break featuring eating too much. In the meantime, LG is really out. Daily Authority: LG turns out the lights, and more 05/04/21 newsletter It’s official: LG is closing down its smartphone business worldwide. Here’s LG’s full press release sent through last night: LG Electronics Inc. (LG) announced that it is closing its mobile business unit. The decision was approved by its board of directors earlier today. LG’s strategic decision to exit...

Samsung Allegedly Co-Developed Whitechapel SoC For The Google Pixel 6 Advertisement Advertisement A recent report stated that the Google Pixel 6 will feature Google’s in-house ‘Whitechapel’ processor. That news managed to surprise everyone. Well, now, we have a new piece of information that claims Samsung co-developed that ‘Whitechapel’ SoC that is destined for the Pixel 6. The information comes from XDA Developers. The source claims that Google’s first mobile SoC will feature a t...

Advertisement Overseas phones from Samsung use its own Exynos chips, but Qualcomm largely has a monopoly on phones in the U.S. A homegrown chip from Google would be a major break and could lead to a renaissance for the Pixel, which has struggled to gain traction. Apple has been making its own smartphone chips since the iPhone 4 and it gives its handsets a huge speed and power efficiency advantage over Android phones. This wouldn’t be Google’s first crack at a smartphone chip. It already mak...

The story that broke on Friday about the possibility of Google ditching Qualcomm for the Pixel 6 because it created its own smartphone processor is about as big as it gets. It is without a doubt...

Google is set to mirror one of Apples smartest moves on April 3, 2021, 11:29 Rumor mill: Google is reportedly developing its own custom system-on-a-chip (SoC) for next-generation Pixel handsets. The chip, which is being co-developed with Samsung, is expected to premiere in upcoming Pixel 6 later this year. The news come following a previous earnings call in which Google CEO Sundar Pichai described “deeper investments in hardware” and teased a “terrific roadmap ahead�...

More expensive, less flexible, but easier and safer to use Tim Anderson Thu 25 Feb 2021 // 17:30 UTC Share Copy Google has recognised that users struggle to configure Kubernetes correctly and introduced a new Autopilot service in an attempt to simplify deployment and management. Two things everyone knows about Kubernetes are: first, that it has won in the critically important container orchestration space, and second, that its complexity is both a barrier to adoption and...