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UK’s Callosum in talks to raise $100m for architecture-neutral AI 📢🌟 Callosum, a Cambridge University spinout, is looking to raise $100 million to develop software to allow AI programmes to perform better by running on multiple processor architectures. ‘New chips and architectures are arriving from every direction, but no infrastructure has existed to bring them together,’ says #Callosum. The company believes that by using a variety of processor architectures it can get #AI software programmes to perform better than if they ran on a single architecture.’ Read the full story 👉 https://lnkd.in/eN3Yftmm

AI is transforming 2nm packaging advances through global collaboration 📢🌟 #AI is transforming the next-generation advanced foundry for 2nm chips, thus reshaping the semiconductor industry, writes Rozalia Beica. The concept of the #AIFoundry embodies this shift. It is a manufacturing ecosystem that continuously learns, senses and adapts, embedding intelligence from design through fabrication and packaging. By integrating AI into materials, processes and equipment control, such a foundry can... [Rozalia Beica is field CTO packaging technologies, Rapidus Corporation US] Read the full story 👉 https://lnkd.in/ebJHqvXP

In the wake of ADI buying Empower Semiconductor, get the wider context by listening to our CHIIPS podcast 🌟🎙️ See "CHIIPs with Tim Phillips, Empower Semiconductor, on startup experience & AI power efficient processes" In this episode, Caroline asks Tim Phillips, co-founder of Empower Semiconductor, about his startup experience and the role of power efficient processes for managing AI now and in the future. #ADI Analog Devices Get up to speed 👉 https://lnkd.in/e9FNjFT2

Lunar Outpost raises $30m for off-planet robotic workforce 📢🌟 Lunar Outpost, the U.S. space infrastructure company, has completed a $30 million Series B round of funding. Specialising in “off-planet mobility”, it is eyeing the industrial #robotic extraction of lunar resources. The capital injection will accelerate production and deployment of its robotics and mobility platforms, it says. The funding will “scale the critical industrial layer required for a permanent human presence in space”. Specifically, it will expand its fleet of spacecraft and invest further in autonomous capabilities like its #Starweave autonomous swarm software and Stargate Command, Control, and Communications (#C3) platform. Read the full story 👉 https://lnkd.in/eiUPctF2

Emerson is making more plans for Nigel 📢🌟 At NiConnect in Fort Worth, Emerson announced prompt-based code generation for NI Nigel AI, its test-optimised AI technology. According to Emerson, the addition of code generation and cross-platform intelligence open up the AI technology for specialist, mission-critical users, e.g aerospace, transportation, automotive and semiconductor design engineers to develop and test products meeting strict reliability and safety requirements. Caroline Hayes met Kevin Shultz, CTO of Technology & Innovation (pictured) at Emerson’s offices in Austin, Texas. Speaking ahead of the Nigel AI announcement, he said: “I have never seen a technology moving at the rate that #AI is moving”. Read the full story 👉 https://lnkd.in/epWxbrZ8

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iSpace, Inc. and University of Leicester partner for Lunar Raman Spectrometer mission 🔊✴️🇬🇧🇯🇵 #ispace is signing a Payload Service Agreement with the University of Leicester to deliver a #Raman spectrometer to the lunar surface. The aim is to analyse lunar regolith, to identify molecular compositions and possible resources. For example, high value minerals and water ice that could support future human exploration. A Raman #spectrometer characterises materials by analysing how they scatter laser light, to determine a chemical fingerprint. Read the full story 👉 https://lnkd.in/eetxwsHA

Open Cosmos designs eight satellites 📢🌟 Open Cosmos the European satellite builder, has come up with eight new Earth observation satellite designs to monitor climate-related disasters and environmental threats from space. The satellites are to be part of the Atlantic Constellation (#ESCA), a project managed by the AEE in collaboration with the ESA to strengthen Europe’s Earth observation capabilities. The project, backed by with €30 million, will deliver 16 state-of-the-art satellites to create a linked, coordinated constellation capable of high performance and reliability in operational Earth observation missions. Read the full story 👉 https://lnkd.in/ea5TnKXQ

Greenconn: Precision interconnect design for collaborative robots. Explore how floating, compact, and sealed solutions maintain signal integrity, absorb mechanical stress, and support reliable connectivity across the entire cobot system. Read more: https://ow.ly/Xvwa50YYR5G

King’s Awards for Enterprise 2026 📢🌟👏 The King’s Awards for Enterprise 2026 have been announced, and Electronics Weekly studied the list of winners to discover which electronics-related organisations have been honoured this year. They were officially announced last week, on 6 May 2026, which marks the anniversary of the coronation of King Charles III. This is the annual, traditional date for announcing these awards. One of the successful companies, for example, is Blackburn-based TT Instruments (#TechPlant), pictured above. It was received a King’s Award for Enterprise in International Trade. Read the full story 👉 https://lnkd.in/emJCS4kv