Aquantia raises $25 million for highest-speed Ethernet chips
As video bogs down the Internet, it never hurts to beef up the infrastructure for moving packets around. That’s what semiconductor design firm Aquantia is doing with its chips, and it explains why the company has been able to raise $25 million in a new round of venture funding.
Aquantia’s chips can process 10-gigabit Ethernet signals. That’s important because corporate data centers are getting overloaded. The newest servers have multiple processors, or cores, in a single… Continue Reading
Chip investments rising in China: The AMFE and Montalvo cases
Advanced Micro-Fabrication Equipment, a Shanghai company that makes semiconductor processing equipment, said it has raised $35 million in a second round of funding.
This is just the latest example of how Chinese chip related companies are attracting venture money, even as U.S. companies seem to be getting less. (See our story here for news about the latest Silicon Valley chip start-up, Montalvo.)
The company, founded in 2004, said it is building cutting-edge integrated circuit manufacturing fabs.
Participants… Continue Reading