CollPlant Biotechnologies acquires laser-based computing startup LightSolver
Financial terms of deal have not been disclosed
News - Middle East, Charlotte Trueman, DatacenterDynamics
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Microchip Technology acquires Israeli chip startup Hailo for undisclosed amount
Microchip says acquisition will help its intelligent Edge processing portfolio
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US gov’t eases AI chip export controls on UAE following country’s support in Iran war
UAE-based companies will now have unrestricted access to purchase advanced AI chips from the US
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Helium supply disruptions linked to Middle East conflict could impact semiconductor, AI, and data center supply chains
Qatar accounts for around 30 percent of world’s high-purity helium production
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Credo Technology Group acquires DustPhotonics in $1.3bn cash and stock deal
Potential for additional shares to be issued if DustPhotonics hits certain financial milestones
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Israeli quantum computing startup Q-Factor emerges from stealth with $24m funding round
Investors include NFX, TPY Capital, and Intel Capital
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China’s SMIC shipping chipmaking equipment to Iranian military – report
US-sanctioned chipmaker is believed to have been shipping tools to Iran for about a year
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G42 CEO says company will receive first AI chip shipments “within months” to support initial 200MW of capacity for planned Stargate cluster
Comments made by Peng Xiao during an interview at Davos
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First phase of Israel’s Nvidia B200-powered national AI supercomputer goes live
AI cloud provider was awarded tender to build and operate the system last year
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Qatar and UAE to sign up to US-led Pax Silica initiative in coming days
Aims to bring countries together to secure semiconductor supply chain
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India to establish two quantum chip and sensor fabs at universities in Bombay and Bangalore
Facilities will support Indian government’s National Quantum Mission
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Majestic Labs raises $100m for its all in one servers designed to eliminate the memory wall
Company was founded by former Google and Meta executives
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RAAAM Memory Technologies raises $17.5m for development of low-power chips
Startup is collaborating with lead investor NXP Semiconductors
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Du and NextGenAI partner for 13MW Nvidia B300 deployment in UAE
Cluster housed in Du’s DSO data center in Dubai
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Microsoft becomes first company granted export license by US gov’t to ship Nvidia GPUs to UAE
Allowed to ship the equivalent of 60,400 A100 chips, but unclear if exports have begun
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NextSilicon claims Maverick-2 accelerator outperforms Nvidia GPUs, plans new RISC-V test chip
Company says total energy costs of Maverick-2 are less than half those of Nvidia HGX B200
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Department of Commerce issues export licenses for Nvidia chips destined for the UAE
Follows reports that delays were frustrating members of the government and Nvidia executives
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Frustrations grow over delays to US-UAE Nvidia chip deal – report
Five months after the agreement was signed, no investments have been finalized or export licenses signed
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Oracle Cloud partners with e& enterprise for sovereign UAE OneCloud launch
Will deliver more than 200 OCI services in the region
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Humain breaks ground two data centers, with first facilities expected to go live in Q2 2026
Facilities will have an initial capacity of 100MW each
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Israeli chip startup NeoLogic raises $10m for energy-efficient CPU development
Round was led by Kompas VC and saw participation from M Ventures and Maniv Mobility
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Cerebras Systems mulls $1bn private funding round in move that could delay planned IPO
Discussions regarding funding for big chip co. are still ongoing
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Chip startup Rebellions partners with Marvell to offer custom hardware for sovereign AI deployments
Offers will target deployments across APAC and the Middle East
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Teramount raises $50m for development of optical interconnect technology
Funding round was led by Koch Disruptive Technologies (KDT)
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Hailo releases Halio-10H Edge AI chip
Offers on-device supports for LLMs and VLMs
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Speedata raised $44m for development of analytics processing units
Investors include Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan
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TSMC in talks over UAE chip fab – report
Trump administration has raised national security concerns regarding the project
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Nebius to build and operate $140m Israeli national supercomputer
System will be powered by 4,000 Nvidia Blackwell GPUs