Ambiq Micro is a semiconductor company that has developed breakthrough technology based on the patented Subthreshold Power Optimized Technology (SPOT™) platform that dramatically reduces the amount of power consumed by ICs. Ambiq Micro’s initial products include ultra-low power real-time clock (RTC) and microcontroller (MCU) devices in multiple consumer wearables. The company was founded out of…
Founded in 2016, IonQ is setting out to build a fully operational trapped-ion quantum computing platform based on research performed at both Duke University and University of Maryland. IonQ was incubated in stealth by NEA and its scientific co-founders, Professor Chris Monroe (UMD) and Professor Jungsang Kim (Duke), two of the foremost leading scientists in…
Luxtera is a fabless Silicon Photonics company with a unique technology platform to manufacture a new breed of monolithic opto-electronic devices in a low cost CMOS process. Luxtera’s devices are fully integrated photonics transceivers for datacenter operations. The company’s vision is to deliver economic optical connectivity everywhere across the network. Acquired by Cisco Systems
MC10 is developing electronic circuits that can stretch up to 400% with wide-ranging applications in medical devices, sensors, and compact cameras. The technology was developed by Prof. John Rogers at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, while the medical applications were developed in collaboration with researchers at University of Pennsylvania. MC10’s technology has been covered by The…
Quantum Circuits is building a modular quantum computer that can be reconfigured and reprogrammed in many different ways, with initial applications that will address drug design for biotech, improved processes for industrial chemicals, fintech, machine learning, and energy. The Yale team has pioneered the field of quantum computing with superconducting circuits, introducing the transmon qubit…
SiFive was started by the inventors of RISC-V, a modern, open-source computer instruction set architecture. As Moore’s Law continues to slow down, performance gains for chips will have to be achieved with customized chip designs. SiFive leverages new software approaches to agile hardware design with RISC-V to reduce the time for their customers to receive…