Two year old space startup In Orbit Aerospace wants to be the third party logistics provider for Earth to space commerce – and to get there, the company […]
Playground Global closes Fund III with $410M for early-stage deep tech investments
Playground Global, the storied early-stage venture capital firm, brought in $410 million in capital commitments for its Fund III to invest in early-stage deep tech and science companies. […]
EnCharge raises $22.6M to commercialize its AI-accerating chips
Around a year ago, TechCrunch wrote about a little-known company developing AI-accelerating chips to face off against hardware from titans of industry — e.g. Nvidia, AMD, Microsoft, Meta, […]
Nvidia taps China talent for autonomous driving endeavors
Nvidia has long been involved in the development of autonomous vehicle technologies, providing the industry with graphic processing units that can perform millions of calculations simultaneously. Now the […]
China’s EV upstart Li Auto hunts for chip talent in Singapore
Li Auto, a electric vehicle maker adored by young Chinese families, is stepping up its endeavors to build in-house automotive chips and has gone abroad to seek talent […]
Toyota to invest another $8B into North Carolina EV battery factory
Toyota said Tuesday it will invest another $8 billion into its first EV battery factory in North America, as the Japanese automaker tries to ramp up its electrification […]
Power amplifier startup Falcomm to close $4M, taking on Qualcomm and Broadcom
Smartphones are equipped with a range of chips that perform various functions. Among them, there’s a semiconductor chip called the power amplifier that is responsible for conditioning and […]
US finds no evidence Huawei can mass produce advanced phone chips
The ability of Huawei — and China at large — to manufacture advanced chips amid U.S. sanctions has again come into question as conflicting claims arise. The U.S. […]