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Petralon Energy appoints Edith Unuigbe as non–executive director
Guardian (blog) Petralon Energy has announced the appointment of Edith Unuigbe as a non–executive director to the board of directors of Petralon Energy Limited. Edith Unuigbe joins Petralon’s board after an illustrious 20-year career at Nigeria LNG (NLNG), where she … |
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– Overall Household Spending y/y for April, expected is -0.9%, prior was -1.3%. Consumer activity has been weak and the trend continues.
May 30, 2017 at 02:36AM
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I noticed that Reddit’s API (http://ift.tt/1yFhZia) provides a sufficient opportunity to build an AI of sorts. I think coupled with IFTTT (https://ifttt.com/), one could stay quite busy :-).
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Prosecutors spend day following money trail in Corrine Brown case
WJXT Jacksonville Corrine Brown used donated funds as a personal slush fund, prosecutors spent the day following the money trail with testimony from Brown’s tax preparer and an FBI forensic accountant. The congresswoman’s former chief of staff was expected to take the … |
May 12, 2017 at 03:16AM
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Falcon Computing Solutions said May 8 that it raised $8 million in financing led by Intel Capital. Also participating in the round were all prior Falcon investors including Baidu Ventures and Clear Ventures, as well as SV Tech Ventures and Sierra Ventures. Falcon, of Santa Clara, California, provides acceleration technology and solutions for big-data applications.
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SANTA CLARA, Calif., May 8, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — Falcon Computing Solutions, a leader in acceleration technology and solutions for big-data applications, today announced it had closed $8M in financing led by Intel Capital. Joining Intel Capital are all previous investors including Baidu Ventures and Clear Ventures, as well as SV Tech Ventures and Sierra Ventures.
Falcon will use the investment to continue building a world-class team to productize its acceleration technology and build best-in-class solutions across multiple vertical markets. In addition to its existing offices in Los Angeles and Beijing, the company also recently opened new headquarters in Santa Clara, CA as it continues to grow. The investment brings the total raised by the company to over $10M.
Falcon Computing provides solutions that look beyond parallelization to enable seamless and scalable acceleration capability. Its products include compile and runtime tools and libraries that span multiple vertical markets, enabling order of magnitude improvements in performance and power efficiency. Falcon technology has been deployed in markets including Genomics Sequencing, Machine Learning, Autonomous Driving, and Computer and Medical Imaging, with significant acceleration achieved using existing applications.
“Our outstanding group of investors and emerging product offerings are well-timed and position Falcon for growth as the leader in acceleration solutions,” noted Falcon CEO Bradley Howe. “As an increasing number of vertical applications look to leverage the capabilities of today’s data center, Falcon provides the means for those with limited experience to do so quickly and easily.”
“This is an exciting time for customizable computing as Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) are adopted in both private and public clouds, along with Intel’s steps toward an integrated CPU+FPGA solution to power next-generation servers,” said Dr. Jason Cong, company Co-Founder and Chancellor’s Professor and Director of the Center for Domain-Specific Computing at UCLA. “Falcon has been the industry leader in providing software to enable FPGA-based acceleration in datacenters. This investment will greatly expand the product development and market adoption.”
“Falcon Computing’s expertise and solutions will help unlock FPGA benefits for cloud and data center developers and users,” said Alex Grbic, vice president of product marketing at Intel Corp.’s Programmable Solutions Group. “We are excited to work with Falcon Computing and its customers.”
In addition to the investment, Falcon and Intel will collaborate on new platforms and technologies that will combine Falcon’s acceleration solutions with Intel’s emerging FPGA product offerings.
Falcon Computing Solutions
Falcon Computing Solutions was founded in 2014 and provides seamless and scalable acceleration solutions to big-data applications. Its products include compile and runtime tools and libraries that span multiple vertical markets, enabling order of magnitude improvements in performance and power efficiency. The company is based in Santa Clara, CA with offices in Los Angeles and Beijing with investors that include Intel Capital, Baidu Ventures, Clear Ventures, SV Tech Ventures, and Sierra Ventures. More information can be found at http://ift.tt/2pTouPJ.
Intel Capital
Intel Capital, Intel’s strategic investment and M&A organization, backs innovative startups targeting computing and smart devices, cloud, datacenter, security, the Internet of Things, wearable and robotic technologies and semiconductor manufacturing. Since 1991, Intel Capital has invested US$12.2 billion in 1,480 companies worldwide, and 627 portfolio companies have gone public or been acquired. Through its business development programs, Intel Capital curates thousands of introductions each year between its portfolio executives and Intel’s customers and partners in the Global 2000. For more information on what makes Intel Capital one of the world’s most powerful venture capital firms, visit http://ift.tt/2qKUzdH follow @Intelcapital.
May 09, 2017 at 02:58AM
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Flex Logix Technologies Inc said May 8 that it raised $5 million in Series B equity financing led by Lux Capital and Eclipse Ventures. The Tate Family Trust also participated. Flex Logic, of Mountain View, California, supplies embedded FPGA IP and software.
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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., May 8, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — Flex Logix™ Technologies, Inc., the leading supplier of embedded FPGA IP and software, today announced it has secured $5 million in Series B equity financing. Led by existing investors Lux Capital and Eclipse Ventures, with participation from the Tate Family Trust, this new round of funding will enable Flex Logix to expand its sales, applications and engineering teams to meet the growing customer demand for its embedded FPGA platform in a variety of applications such as networking, government, data centers and deep learning.
“We believe that Flex Logix’s embedded FPGA has the potential to be as pervasive as ARM’s embedded processors have become today,” said Peter Hebert, Managing Partner at Lux Capital. “The company’s software and silicon are proven and in use at multiple customers, paving the way to become one of the most widely-used chip building blocks across many markets and for a broad range of applications.”
Market leaders in networking, data centers and deep learning are embracing Flex Logix’s technology because it significantly increases the return on investment required to bring complex chips to market. With readily-available, high-density blocks of programmable RTL in any size and with the features a customer needs, designers now have the powerful flexibility to customize a single chip for multiple markets and/or upgrade the chip while in the system to adjust to changing standards such as networking protocols. Customers can also easily update their chips with the latest deep learning algorithms and/or implement their own versions of protocols in data centers. In the past, the only way to accomplish these updates was through expensive and time-consuming new mask versions of the same chip.
“The Flex Logix platform is the best, most scalable and flexible embedded FPGA solution on the market today, delivering significant competitive advantages in time to market, engineering efficiency, minimum metal layers and high density,” said Pierre Lamond, Partner at Eclipse Ventures. “These patented technology breakthroughs combined with an experienced management team led by Geoff Tate, the founding CEO of Rambus, strongly position the company for rapid growth in the future.”
“We now have customers with working silicon, multiple licensees and are seeing our first repeat designs,” said Tate, CEO of Flex Logix. “With a large number of customers in active, detailed evaluation of our technology for a wide range of applications, we expect significant growth of our customer base in the near term. As a result, we’re staffing up ‘ahead of the curve’ to ensure we can satisfy the demand.”
About the Flex Logix Embedded FPGA Platform
Addressing a wide range of chips in multiple markets, the Flex Logix EFLX™ platform can be used with networking chips with reconfigurable protocols, datacenter chips with reconfigurable accelerators, deep learning chips with real-time upgradeable algorithms, base stations chips with customizable features for multiple markets, MCU/IoT chips with flexible I/O and accelerators, and aerospace/defense applications including rad-hard embedded FPGA. EFLX is available for the most popular process nodes already and is being ported to additional process nodes based on customer demand.
About Eclipse Ventures
Eclipse Ventures is redefining the way investments are made in hardware-focused companies. We see a world where hardware, robust software architecture, and compelling data insights are no longer three separate business models. Rather, they are the three pillars that define successful systems companies of the future. Eclipse Ventures manages two funds.
About Lux Capital
Lux Capital is a venture firm based in New York City and Silicon Valley investing in counter-conventional, seed and early stage science and technology ventures. The firm manages $1.1 billion in assets across five funds. For more information please see www.luxcapital.com. Follow Lux on Twitter @Lux_Capital.
About Flex Logix
Flex Logix, founded in March 2014, provides solutions for reconfigurable RTL in chip and system designs using embedded FPGA IP cores and software. The company’s technology platform delivers significant customer benefits by dramatically reducing design and manufacturing risks, accelerating technology roadmaps, and bringing greater flexibility to customers’ hardware. Flex Logix has raised more than $12 million of venture capital. It is headquartered in Mountain View, California and has sales rep offices in China, Europe, Israel, Japan, Taiwan and Texas. More information can be obtained at http://ift.tt/17qw1Jo or follow on Twitter at @efpga.
May 09, 2017 at 02:58AM
from Luisa Beltran
Have an existing IRA, doing the research and investing on my own at the moment… looking for recommendations for a nice solid boring dividend payer, that is expected (dividends to be re-invested) to be held for about 15 years… have about $6000 to invest from calendar year 2016 (i.e. the money is already sitting in the IRA, in a cash position, waiting to be used for stock/bond/fund purchase…)
thoughts… experiences…??
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SiFive said May 8 that it has raised $8.5 million in a Series B round led by Spark Capital. Osage University Partners and existing investor Sutter Hill Ventures also participated. SiFive, of San Francisco, is a fabless provider of open-source-enabled semiconductors.
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SAN FRANCISCO, May 8, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — SiFive, the first fabless provider of customized, open-source-enabled semiconductors, today announced it has raised $8.5 million in a Series B round led by Spark Capital with participation from Osage University Partners and existing investor Sutter Hill Ventures. This Series B round brings the total investment in SiFive to $13.5 million. The funding comes as SiFive experiences a growing demand for RISC-V IP and increased interest in custom silicon.
SiFive was founded by the inventors of RISC-V – Krste Asanovic, Yunsup Lee and Andrew Waterman – with a mission to democratize access to custom silicon. In its first six months of availability, more than 1,000 HiFive1 software development boards have been purchased and delivered to developers in over 40 countries. Additionally, the company has engaged with multiple customers across its IP and SoC products, started shipping the industry’s first RISC-V SoC in November 2016 and announced the availability of its Coreplex RISC-V based IP earlier this month.
“At Spark Capital, we believe technology is the great equalizer. SiFive’s singular goal of putting custom chips into the hands of everyone from startups to exploratory design teams to inventors with a healthy crowdfunding campaign resonates with our core values,” said Todd Dagres, general partner at Spark Capital, who will join the SiFive board of directors. “We are excited at the potential for SiFive to enable new and emerging sectors to bring innovative solutions to market that might otherwise never see the light of day.”
RISC-V has developed a strong ecosystem of more than 60 companies including Google, HPE, Microsoft, IBM, Qualcomm, NVIDIA, Samsung, Microsemi and others. Member companies, as well as third-party open-source contributors, are actively contributing to a maturing stable of software and toolchains, including GCC and binutils, both of which have been upstreamed. SiFive maintains an easy to install toolchain, SDK and BSPs with binaries of the latest open source tools, including OpenOCD, GNU Debugger, Arduino IDE and the Eclipse integrated development environment. More updates are expected at the 6th RISC-V Workshop this week in Shanghai.
This Series B financing comes amid a string of significant milestones for SiFive in the past year:
• Product Innovation: SiFive launched its Freedom Everywhere platform – designed for microcontroller, embedded, IoT and wearable applications – and its Freedom Unleashed platform – for machine learning, storage and networking applications – in July 2016. At the 5th RISC-V Workshop in November, SiFive announced general availability of the Freedom Everywhere 310 (FE310) SoC and the HiFive1 software development board.
• Industry Recognition: SiFive was recognized as the Startup of the Year by the 2016 ACE Awards. Its contributions to the open source community were noted by the Linley Group’s Analyst Choice Awards, which named RISC-V its Technology of the Year for 2016. Additionally, the seminar computer architecture textbook, “Computer Organization and Design,” has been updated to include RISC-V in the latest edition, which was released in April.
• Customer Adoption: Earlier this month, SiFive launched its Coreplex IP and announced a growing ecosystem of partners, including Faraday, Microsemi and United Design Systems, making SiFive Coreplex IP available to their downstream customers.
• Company Growth: SiFive’s employee base has grown more than 280 percent to support the development of its Freedom Everywhere and Freedom Unleashed SoCs, as well as the launch of its E31 and E51 Coreplex IPs. SiFive’s leadership team continues to grow with key engineers from Altera, ARM, Atmel, Cadence Design Systems, Cisco, Intel, Juniper, Marvell, Nvidia Qualcomm, Synopsys and Xilinx.
“We are energized by the partnerships we have forged with our investors and their strong belief in SiFive’s mission,” said Jack Kang, vice president of product and business development at SiFive. “This investment will enable our continued growth for years to come, and will allow SiFive to further establish that alternatives really matter in an era where traditional silicon vendors no longer are the most innovative in the industry.”
About SiFive
SiFive is the first fabless provider of customized semiconductors based on the free and open RISC-V instruction set architecture. Founded by RISC-V inventors Krste Asanovic, Yunsup Lee and Andrew Waterman, SiFive democratizes access to custom silicon by helping system designers reduce time-to-market and realize cost savings with customized RISC-V based semiconductors. SiFive is located in Silicon Valley and has venture backing from Sutter Hill Ventures, Spark Capital and Osage University Partners. For more information, visit www.sifive.com.
May 09, 2017 at 02:58AM
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