Microsoft unveiled Maia 300 on October 12 and plans multi-gigawatt Azure Maia deployments from 2027, according to theneuron.ai. Its 40% tokens-per-megawatt target comes without a stated baseline, so teams cannot yet size agent workloads against it.
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Samsung has co-led a EUR 200m round for Euclyd, an Eindhoven chip company founded in 2024, and the chief executive says the Korean group's memory manufacturing and supply-chain reach matter as much as its cash.
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Atomarine plans a gas-fired floating data center, with its first reactor four years later
Investors polled by TechCrunch put Atomarine, whose first hull is planned to burn gas, among the highest-valued startups in Y Combinator's newest batch, on the strength of more than $4 billion in letters of intent.
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buildConfirmed2 publishers Positron says the money covers a TSMC N3P tapeout by the end of 2026, a new 2MW engineering data center and a production ramp in the second half of 2027. The larger of the round's two tranches is described as up to $500 million.
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Justice Department asks whether a licence and a hiring spree did the work of an acquisition
Nvidia took a non-exclusive licence to Groq's chip technology and hired its founder. The arrangement never went through merger review. Anyone who wrote Groq into next year's inference plan is now diligencing a different risk.
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A preliminary $250 million commitment from Anthropic is reportedly carrying a British inference-chip startup from about $1 billion in May to $6.5 billion, with silicon due in 2027.
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Fractile's price rose about $5.5bn on a $250mn chip order from Anthropic
The British inference startup is in talks at a $6.5bn pre-money valuation three months after a $1bn round, Bloomberg reports. The signal is the buyer, not the multiple.
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