Intel's New $1B Fund & An Interview with Kyle Dumont from AllSpice

February 8, 2022 No. 17

Highlights this week: 💰 intel's new $1B fund, 🎤 an interview with Kyle Dumont from AllSpice, 🇫🇷 France’s semiconductor power-move.

🔗 Last week’s most-clicked link: Great overview of the semiconductor industry from Eagle Point Capital.

⚡️ Analog Interview: Kyle Dumont, CTO & Co-Founder @ AllSpice

AllSpice just raised a $3.2M seed round. Read the entire interview!

Startup News 🚀💰:

Intel announces $1B innovation fund focused on risc-v and chip foundry ecosystem.
RenoRun, the builder of an e-commerce platform for construction materials, raised $142 million in a Series B funding round co-led by Tiger Global Management and Sozo Ventures.
Framework, a hardware startup that places repairability as a key feature in product design, raised $18 million in a Series A led by Spark Capital.
Firewalla launches the Firewalla Purple, a device that combines firewall and routers which have already become a go-to security tool for small businesses.
Kyoto Fusioneering, a fusion energy startup, raised $11.7 million in a Series B led by existing investors and Coral Capital Co., Daiwa Corporate Investment, DBJ Capital, JAFCO Group, JGC MIRAI Innovation Fund, and JIC Venture Growth Investments.
Rain Neuromorphics Inc., a startup designing chips that mimic the way the brain works, has raised $25 million in a Series A led by Prosperity 7 Ventures.
Flexport, a startup focused on technology-forward freight services raised $935 million in a Series E round led by Andreessen Horowitz and Michael Dell’s MSD Partners.

Interesting Links 🔗:

A 2007 email from Steve Jobs laying out the agenda for an executive team meeting. Interesting notes: 15” macbook air, iTunes ringtone maker, and recruiting a Dean of Apple University.
Possibly the best detailed introduction to 5G Technology, including numerology and frame structure, beam management, protocol structures, etc. Plus, it’s free!
The powerglove of the 80’s gave the world one of its first hands-on experiences with VR. Although it lasted less than 12 months on store shelves, the promise of the Power Glove—a seamless interaction with three-dimensional software—later came to fruition with video game systems like Nintendo’s Wii and Microsoft’s Kinect, as well as the surge of VR platforms led by the Oculus Rift.
Drones are hard to control, and landings are even more difficult with regard to battery life, landing on uncertain spots, hard landings, and catching drones. Researchers from the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology have developed a novel way of landing a swarm of nano-drones on human arms with a combination of tactile and visual feedback.
Detailed survey and consolidated list of alternative displays and methods of working with displays, light and optics. Holograms, transparent OLED, ePaper, HMD’s, Plasma Combustion, etc.
Just how does a black box containing electronic circuit boards remain intact during a catastrophic airplane crash? Surprisingly, most of the data in these on-flight recorders aren’t automatically uploaded to the cloud as you’d might expect in 2022. EETimes followed up with a great piece on the technology limitations restricting the search for the missing Malaysian 777 airliner.
Simple primer on laser drilling for PCB’s, especially the differences between UV and CO2 lasers.
Soitec is a semiconductor materials company known for its smart cut and Silicon on Insulator (SOI) technologies, which are critical in 5G, Silicon Photonics, and Silicon Carbide (EV) end-markets. China owned a 10.93% stake in Soitec and could have pushed to control it, but instead France just nationalized the company. In a series of power plays, the French board installed a CEO who best reflected National Interests. Management got blindsided.
A breakdown of Tesla’s autopilot hardware, including condensed videos of the hardware portion of Autonomy Day and requirements for their full-self-driving computer.
A nice reference and history on multi-layer ceramic capacitors (MLCC).
Nuclear power plants produce around 20% of US electricity and the majority in France. Yet the industry is stagnant. Should we have built more nuclear plants in the 60s and 70s when coal was the primary alternative? Almost certainly. It may not makes sense to build new LWRs today, but we can reduce how much existing plants cost to operate and fast-track new technologies to the market through better regulation.
Incredible interview with Balaji Srinivasan. Technology as the driving force for history, God/State/Network, and the future of relationships and online dating.