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$273M Series A for Championing Graphene in Chip Connectivity
- muditsrivastava 2y agoThis funding of Black Semiconductor caught my attention because of Aachen (one of my favorite cities) and because it's a major recent development not directly focused on Generative AI. Black Semiconductor is focusing on leveraging graphene for chip-to-chip connectivity, moving away from traditional electronic connections towards photon-based interconnects. There was a similar news around graphene but for graphene-based chips by folks at Georgia Tech. https://spectrum.ieee.org/graphene-semiconductor#:~:text=Researchers%20at%20Georgia%20Tech%2C%20in,material%20for%20future%20quantum%20computers https://spectrum.ieee.org/graphene-semiconductor#:~:text=Res.... Black Semiconductor, however, is pushing towards commercial scalability and integration into existing semiconductor manufacturing processes. I can imagine its impact on complex data processing tasks like streaming where latency will be reduced through innovations on a foundational hardware level.