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d-Matrix Adopts NVIDIA NVLink Fusion Rackscale Infrastructure for Ultra-Low Latency AI Inference
d-Matrix will integrate XPUs into NVIDIA MGX rackscale architecture with NVIDIA NVLink Fusion; Collaboration to enable AI labs, hyperscalers, neoclouds to offer premium-level token services SANTA CLARA, Calif., Sept. 10, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- d-Matrix today announced a new collaboration with NVIDIA that includes a multi-year product roadmap, providing d-Matrix XPUs entry into the widely deployed NVIDIA AI factory ecosystem. The centerpiece of the collaboration is an NVLink Fus
Sep 10


Nvidia And d-Matrix Announce Collaboration Roadmap For Fast Inference
By Karl Freund, Contributor. Founder and Principal Analyst, Cambrian-AI Research LLC Read the full story on Forbes. Sep 10, 2026 Nvidia has done something unexpected: the AI leader is partnering with its (previous?) competitor d-Matrix to build an alternative disaggregated inference solution. Why not wait for the Groq LPU3, which essentially solves the same problem using fast SRAM for disaggregated inference processing? I have a few ideas I will delve into in this article. (N
Sep 10


Quintessent Expands Leadership Team to Support Growth of Optical Data Center Interconnect Technology
Ramesh Senthinathan and Manar Mohamed bring deep technology and semiconductor industry experience as company expands its optical interconnect product portfolio September 8, 2026 SANTA BARBARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Quintessent, an innovator in resilient and low-cost AI datacenter optical interconnect products, today announced it has hired Ramesh Senthinathan, Ph.D., as vice president of system engineering, and Manar Mohamed as director of business development and marketing
Sep 8


TITAN Haptics Introduces Compact VH Module for Digital Audio-to-Haptics Integration
10.8 × 10.8 mm solder-down module combines audio-to-haptics processing and dual-channel amplification for production hardware September 1, 2026 TORONTO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--TITAN Haptics today introduced the VH Module, a compact solder-down audio-to-haptics module designed to simplify the integration of wideband haptics into consumer electronics and gaming hardware. Measuring just 10.8 × 10.8 mm and 2.29 mm tall, the VH Module combines digital audio-to-haptics processing, DSP an
Sep 1


Quintessent Raises $40 Million Series A and Begins Sampling First Product for AI Optical Interconnects
August 24, 2026 SANTA BARBARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Quintessent, an innovator in resilient and low-cost AI datacenter optical interconnect products, today announced it has raised $40 million in an oversubscribed Series A investment round. Quintessent also announced the start of customer sampling of its single-chip quantum dot-based DWDM comb laser – a new class of light source designed to simplify optical connectivity for rapidly scaling AI clusters. “For the past several
Aug 24


U.S. Department of Energy Selects Coreshell Technologies for $50 Million Award to Scale Domestic Battery Manufacturing with Metallurgical Silicon (MGS) Anodes
Award will fund expansion of production capacity, creating more than 100 operational jobs and strengthening U.S. supply chain independence for American mobility and defense applications SAN LEANDRO, Calif., Aug. 24, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Coreshell Technologies announced that it has been selected by the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Manufacturing Deployment Office (MDO) for a $50 million award under the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. The award will fund the expansi
Aug 24


d-Matrix Acquires Wallaroo.ai to Speed up Deployment of Heterogeneous AI Inference Workloads
Second acquisition in four months brings ease of deployment and orchestration expertise to d-Matrix's silicon-to-software data center inference stack SANTA CLARA, Calif., Aug. 3, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- d-Matrix, the pioneer in ultra-low-latency AI inference for data centers, today announced the acquisition of Wallaroo.ai, a leader in AI inference deployment and orchestration software. The acquisition brings d-Matrix the technology platform, intellectual property, and expert eng
Aug 3


Coreshell Technologies Partners with L&F to Scale Batteries Free of Chinese Materials
Coreshell's cathode active materials supply deal with L&F eliminates the final FEOC risk in the battery supply chain — giving defense suppliers, OEMs, and energy storage customers a fully China-free option SAN LEANDRO, Calif., July 10, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Coreshell Technologies, a battery technology company, today announced an eight-year supply agreement with L&F Co., Ltd to secure a long-term supply of lithium-iron phosphate ("LFP") cathode active materials. The agreement m
Jul 10


Parasail to Combine NVIDIA AI Infrastructure with d-Matrix Accelerators to Achieve 10x Faster Token Generation
Inference service provider to deliver faster, more cost-efficient tokens by pairing NVIDIA Hopper and Blackwell GPUs with d-Matrix Corsair accelerators SAN FRANCISCO and SANTA CLARA, Calif., July 8, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Parasail, the inference cloud for AI-native startups, and d-Matrix, a pioneer in low-latency AI inference compute platforms for data centers, today announced Parasail is deploying d-Matrix Corsair inference accelerators alongside the NVIDIA Hopper and NVIDIA B
Jul 8


d-Matrix Corsair Inference Accelerator Wins 2026 AI Breakthrough Award
"AI Processor Innovation Award" recognizes Corsair as the emerging infrastructure of choice for heterogeneous AI compute, deliver blazing fast token generation in concert with GPUs SANTA CLARA, Calif., June 25, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- d-Matrix, the pioneer in low-latency AI inference for data centers, today announced its d-Matrix Corsair™ inference accelerator is the recipient of the ninth annual AI Breakthrough Award program's "AI Processor Innovation Award." Having just entere
Jun 25


Coreshell Technologies Enters Defense Market with a Scalable, Fully Domestic Battery Platform for Defense Applications
ADS invests in Coreshell to strengthen the domestic supply chain and bring American-made batteries to the DOW DETROIT, June 16, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Coreshell Technologies today announced its expansion into the defense market, offering the only high-performance batteries that are simultaneously scalable, mission-ready, and entirely free of Foreign Entity of Concern (FEOC) materials. The announcement comes as ADS, a leading provider of mission-critical equipment to the DOW, ma
Jun 16


Upstart chipmakers keep challenging Nvidia. This time it’s Microsoft-backed D-Matrix
Published Tue, Jun 9 2026 Katie Tarasov Key Points D-Matrix says its chips can run inference workloads 10 times faster and using five times less energy than a standalone graphics processing unit from Nvidia. Like Cerebras, D-Matrix is trying to prove it can carve out a niche in the AI chip market, which Nvidia has dominated. “This is a $1 trillion market in the making,” D-Matrix co-founder and CEO Sid Sheth told CNBC. In the increasingly competitive AI chip market, there’s an
Jun 9


Faster AI Inference enabled by 1000x Higher Scale with Delos Data™ Nonstop AI™
Delos Nonstop AI™ Product Portfolio Solves AI Interconnect Bottlenecks and Increases GPU Utilization Delos AI interconnect architecture enables faster and efficient data movement between GPUs Solves interconnect issues cluster wide for large-scale inference workloads as unified system Delos is showing the cluster and software running AI workloads at Computex PALO ALTO, Calif., May 27, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Delos Data today announced a new cluster architecture and server design
May 27


d-Matrix Boosts Rack-scale AI Capabilities With Acquisition of GigaIO Data Center Business
Addition of Rack-Scale Technology, Systems Expertise and Key Engineering Talent to Accelerate Deployment of Low-Latency, Highly Efficient AI Inference at Scale SANTA CLARA, Calif., April 2, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- d-Matrix, the pioneer in low-latency AI inference compute for data centers, today announced the acquisition of GigaIO's data center business, a systems engineering organization with deep expertise in rack-scale infrastructure and high-performance interconnects. Buildin
Apr 2


Subtle Introduces Voicebuds - Reinventing Earbuds for Personal Voice Computing
Now available for preorder, Voicebuds capture your speech below a whisper, enabling private, precise voice input in noisy and shared spaces LAS VEGAS, Jan. 4, 2026 / PRNewswire / -- Today at CES, Subtle unveiled Voicebuds , reinventing the earbud to provide voice-first productivity that works in the real world, even when you're speaking too quietly to be overheard. Until now, voice input has broken down in the places that matter most - it's too public in shared spaces and to
Jan 4


Lucidean Raises Series Seed Funding to Accelerate Next-Gen Coherent Optical Links for Data Centers; Announces Dr. James Raring as Chief Executive Officer
SANTA BARBARA, Calif.--( BUSINESS WIRE )--Lucidean, a Santa Barbara–based AI interconnect company pioneering coherent optical links for data centers, announced that Dr. James Raring has joined as Chief Executive Officer and that the company has raised $18 million in Seed financing. The Seed funding was co-led by Entrada Ventures and Koch Disruptive Technologies (KDT), with participation from Foothill Ventures, M Ventures, Cerberus Ventures, and Raptor Group. With this Seed fu
Dec 23, 2025


Subtle Computing Launches from Stealth with $6M to Power a New Era of Voice Computing that Works in the Real World
Stanford-founded startup is building "subtle voice computing" – making voice AI private, precise & reliable where today's devices fail PALO ALTO, Calif., Nov. 5, 2025 / PRNewswire / -- Subtle Computing , a voice-first computing company, today announced its launch out of stealth with $6 million in seed funding to power voice AI partnerships and a consumer product launch in early 2026. The round was led by Entrada Ventures , with participation from Amplify Partners , Abstract
Nov 6, 2025


Subtle Computing’s voice isolation models help computers understand you in noisy environments
Ivan Mehta 9:57 AM PST · November 6, 2025 California-based startup Subtle Computing is tackling the problem of capturing people’s voices in noisy environments with its own voice isolation models — a technology that could benefit voice-based AI products and services. Consumer apps using voice AI are today seeing tremendous growth. AI Meeting notetakers like Granola , Fireflies , Fathom , and Read AI have received both user and investor attention. Existing companies like Open
Nov 6, 2025


d-Matrix Announces JetStream I/O Accelerators Enabling Ultra-Low Latency for AI Inference at Scale
Paired with d-Matrix's Corsair accelerators and Aviator software, JetStream can deliver up to 10x speedups, 3x better cost-performance,...
Sep 8, 2025


Coreshell Appoints Industry Veteran Young-Duk Kim as Executive Vice President of Manufacturing & Commercialization
Former Ultium and LG Energy Solution executive brings industry-scale expertise to accelerate Coreshell's next phase of growth SAN...
May 8, 2025
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