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AM Ventures extrudes $100M to support industrial 3D printing

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Munich-based AM Ventures just closed a $100 million fund focusing specifically on the early growth stages of industrial and commercial 3D printing applications. million financing into the ultra-high-resolution 3D printing company that can print finely enough to aid in semiconductor and display manufacturing. . The firm led the $9.5

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Scrona has big manufacturing plans for its tiny 3D printing

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These days, the ETH Zurich spinoff has even bigger ambitions, with plans to scale its tiny printing tech in a bid to bring additive manufacturing/3D printing into the world of mass manufacturing. million grant from the Swiss Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation, bringing the round a bit shy of an even $10 million.

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Nvidia points to the future of AI hardware

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And if the Blackwell specs on paper hold up in reality, the new GPU gives Nvidia AI-focused performance that its competitors can’t match, says Alvin Nguyen, a senior analyst of enterprise architecture at Forrester Research. The case for Blackwell is clear, adds Shane Rau, research VP for semiconductors at IDC. The answer is, not yet.”

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Taipei-based computer vision startup eYs3D gets $7M Series A

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eYs3D Microelectronics , a fabless design house that focuses on end-to-end software and hardware systems for computer vision technology, has raised a $7 million Series A. The new funding will also be used to expand eYs3D’s product development and launch a series of 3D computer vision modules.

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Austin-based ICON awarded $57.2 million NASA contract for lunar construction tech

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million contract is a continuation of a previous Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) dual-use contract with the U.S. ICON, which is best-known for its 3D-printed homes, has been working on Project Olympus for some time. Air Force, which was partly funded by NASA. The company was awarded the initial SBIR grant from the U.S.

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Android’s facial-recognition future could rely on skin detection

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Ingmar Bruder was researching organic photovoltaics—and how to make paint that could absorb sunlight and turn it into electricity—at German chemical giant BASF, when he hit upon an unexpected discovery. The technology that might become the future of facial recognition started with a bucket of household paint.

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Metalenz reimagines the camera in 2D and raises $10M to ship it

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The idea is to take a complex 3D structure and accomplish what it does using a precisely engineered “2D” surface — not actually two-dimensional, of course, but usually a plane with features measured in microns. The 3D sensing thing is Metalenz’s first major application, but the company is already working on others.

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