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AMD Ventures is the corporate venture capital arm of chipmaker AMD, investing in startups across AI, data center, and semiconductor technology.
Oxide Computer raised a $445 million Series D led by Eclipse Capital to expand production of its pre-integrated on-prem data center rack. For infrastructure teams weighing one, the round is mostly about delivery, since chief executive Steve Tuck says demand still outruns supply.
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Vinci raised $250 million at a $1.5 billion valuation to extend its chip thermal simulator into vibration and electromagnetics. Its self-reported speed now has to hold up in repeated production use, next to the Cadence and Synopsys tools already in design flows.
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The company's own number is SRAM as dense as 2nm or 3nm logic with no extreme ultraviolet lithography, and what publicly backs it is two years of mini-fab runs inside a GlobalFoundries plant in Singapore.
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Kepler Computing has $468mn, up to $245mn committed by the US Commerce Department, and mini fabs running inside GlobalFoundries, which is more than most memory startups get and still short of anything a buyer can schedule against.
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Universal, Sony and Warner all took equity in Stability AI's $76 million Series B. Two years after suing AI song generators, the majors are buying the toolmakers.
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Universal, Warner and Sony Music now own a piece of the company selling licensed music models. The money funds a narrower Stability: professional tooling, sold through a plugin.
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A $76M Series B puts four rights holders on a generative-media vendor's cap table. What it does not put anywhere is a disclosed spending commitment, valuation, or revenue figure.
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