PrecisionHawk Gains Investments from DOCOMO, Verizon, Intel

PrecisionHawk, a start-up that specializes in data collection via drones, closed $18 million Series C funding round with strategic investments from NTT DOCOMO, Verizon Ventures, Intel Capital, USAA, Yamaha Motors and others. This investment brings PrecisionHawk’s total funding to more than $30 million. PrecisionHawk said the new funding will be used to expand its terrestrial data analysis platform, DataMapper, which currently ingests data from all...

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NTT Tackles Artificial Spin for Photonic Computation

Researchers at NTT and and Osaka University announced an important step toward photonic computation by developing a large-scale artificial spin network based on photonics technologies. The development targets a fundamental component for the coherent Ising machine (CIM), which utilizes interacting artificial spins realized with optical parametric oscillators (OPO) for computation of combinatorial optimization problems. The researchers generated more...

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Peraso Raises $20 Million for WiGig Silicon

Peraso Technologies, a start-up based in Toronto, raised a $20 million funding round, to support its development of 60 GHz chip sets and solutions compliant with the IEEE 802.11ad specification. Peraso said its WiGig IC solutions, which are now in production, address both next generation WiFi opportunities in the consumer electronics (CE) space, as well as outdoor devices in the 60 GHz wireless infrastructure space. The round was co-led by IDT...

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