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   Vinci4D pitches physics-driven AI simulation to speed chip design

   Silicon Valley startup Vinci4D presented its physics-driven AI simulation platform at SEMICON West, saying engineers can run simulations a day after a design change instead of roughly two weeks later, and claiming the software runs up to 1,000 times faster than conventional simulation tools with higher accuracy. The company says its pretrained physics models are trained on physics equations rather than customer data, can analyze multiple physical phenomena simultaneously, and can run on inference platforms such as AMD's MI355X. Vinci4D closed a $250 million Series B round at a $1.5 billion valuation earlier this month, jointly led by Advent, Temasek and Xora, with AMD Ventures also participating.

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   Salience Labs raises $125M Series B for optical AI data center switches

   Oxfordshire photonics company Salience Labs raised an oversubscribed $125M Series B led by Bullhound Capital, with AMD Ventures, Intel Capital, SBI Group, Hudson River Trading and the British Business Bank participating. The company says it will use the money to scale manufacturing and open a second West Coast office. Founded in 2021 in Milton, Oxfordshire, it builds on more than a decade of University of Oxford and University of Münster research; it launched a Keysight-validated 32-port all-optical switch in the spring and showed a 64-port version at ECOC in September. The round is meant to fund 128- and 256-port switches, but no date, customer or deployment was disclosed.

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3. Oct 6
   Vinci raises $250M Series B at $1.5B valuation for AI simulation platform

   Vinci4D Inc. announced a $250 million Series B round at a $1.5 billion valuation, co-led by Advent, Temasek and Xora, with participation including AMD Ventures. Its platform is built around a physics-focused AI model that turns uploaded CAD drawings into simulations, automates meshing and uses custom GPU kernels to speed convergence; the company says it can complete simulations with hundreds of millions of degrees of freedom (DOFs) in minutes, versus the hours or days such workloads normally take. Vinci's initial focus is thermal simulation for chips—processors, memory modules and interconnects—with plans to extend to vehicles, aircraft and satellites.

   SiliconANGLE AI · 🔥 0

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