This funding of Black Semiconductor caught my attention because of Aachen (one of my favorite cities) and because it's a major recent development not directly focused on Generative AI.
Black Semiconductor is focusing on leveraging graphene for chip-to-chip connectivity, moving away from traditional electronic connections towards photon-based interconnects.
There was a similar news around graphene but for graphene-based chips by folks at Georgia Tech. https://spectrum.ieee.org/graphene-semiconductor#:~:text=Res....
Black Semiconductor, however, is pushing towards commercial scalability and integration into existing semiconductor manufacturing processes. I can imagine its impact on complex data processing tasks like streaming where latency will be reduced through innovations on a foundational hardware level.
