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Semiconductor-focused venture fund that invests in chip, optics and AI-hardware startups, leading or joining early and growth rounds.
Mueon, a startup founded by former Intel engineers, raised a $65 million Series A led by Maverick Silicon for its stacked Cubelet server. The up-to-10x power and cost figure is the company's own claim.
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CScale emerged from stealth with $188 million, backed by Nvidia and Intel Capital, to build optical links for AI clusters spanning dozens of racks. Its pitch is that compute keeps running when a laser fails, though it has not said how.
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The chip that carries the valuation has been validated on TSMC's 2nm process but not finalised for production, no customer has been named, and the three funds that set the new price were already shareholders.
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Alphabet's growth fund led the round and set the price at $3bn, a bet on a coherent chip whose latency and power advantages nobody outside Celero has measured, and on its reach inside the rack.
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Capital is rotating toward the hardware that lets machines see, and at $1.6bn Lyte is the clearest price on that layer so far, one set by fund managers rather than by anyone named as a customer.
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