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Mistral raises $830m

David Manners — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 05:28:16 +0000

Mistral AI, the French AI developer, says it has taken on debt of $830 million to run a datacentre. The datacentre, at Bruyeres-le-Chatel near Paris, is used to train of ...

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Starcloud raises $170m; plans to put 88,000 datacentre satellites in LEO

David Manners — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 14:18:57 +0000

Two-year-old startup Starcloud has raised $170m at a $1.1bn valuation to put datacentres in space. “By moving AI compute to space, we unlock access to unlimited solar power and completely ...

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Imec gives lifetime achievement award to Jensen Huang

David Manners — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 06:27:48 +0000

Imec has given Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of Nvidia, its 2026 Lifetime of Innovation Award. The honour recognises Huang’s instrumental role in enabling accelerated computing technologies and empowering critical ...

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Q4 cloud spend up 29% y-o-y

David Manners — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 06:21:41 +0000

Q4 spending on cloud infrastructure services reached $110.9bn, led by AWS, MS and Google, for y-o-y growth of 29%, says Omdia. Q4 was the sixth consecutive quarter in which the ...

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AI aims high – how AI boosts satellite monitoring

Caroline Hayes — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 14:45:07 +0000

AI is creeping into orbit and being used to predict where emergency services will be needed, accelerating responses compared to traditional satellite monitoring, said Dr Rajan Bedi, CEO and founder ...

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Synaptics SYN765x integrates Wi-Fi 7 and AI for smart devices

Alun Williams — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 16:25:58 +0000

Synaptics is introducing its SYN765x single-chip device for using AI at the edge with smart IoT devices. It combines support for real-time intelligence with integrated Wi-Fi 7, aiming at battery-powered ...

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Embedded: Ambient Scientific integrates 10 AI cores in GPX10 Pro

Caroline Hayes — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 10:52:10 +0000

The GPX10 Pro SoC has 10 programmable AI cores for a custom instruction set and is based on Ambient Scientific’s proprietarty DigAn architecture and MAC circuit design. The chip’s AI ...

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Siemens Digital launches autonomous AI agent

David Manners — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 06:08:58 +0000

Siemens Digital has brought out the Fuse EDA AI Agent system, an autonomous AI agent that plans and orchestrates multi-tool and multi-agent complex semiconductor, 3D IC and PCB system workflows ...

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Nvidia announces seven Vera Rubin chips in volume production

David Manners — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 08:34:56 +0000

NVIDIA today announced the NVIDIA Vera Rubin platform is opening the next frontier of agentic AI, with seven new chips now in full production. They are: the NVIDIA Vera CPU, ...

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Embedded: Axelera AI, Kudelski Labs collaborate for secure Edge AI processing

Alun Williams — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 14:15:36 +0000

Axelera AI is adding Kudelski Labs’ security IP to its Europa AI chip for secure, high-performance Edge AI processing. It will support, for example, secure activation and real-time threat detection ...

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