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EdgeQ raises $51 million to fuse AI compute and 5G within a single chip

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One way to get all these technologies into single devices is just to agglomerate a bunch of off-the-shelf silicon chips and jam them into a product. EdgeQ, a stealthy silicon startup, emerged from stealth today to showcase a bit of its efforts around its new chip, and also to announce the closing of its $38.5 That bet has been made.

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Shareholders approve Bird-SPAC merger, stock promptly falls

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first spotted the vote news ; Bird is based in the Los Angeles metropolitan agglomeration. Shares of Switchback II Corporation are off more than 14% in morning trading today, appearing to sell off sharply in the wake of news that the blank-check company’s merger with scooter company Bird has been approved by shareholders.

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Startup cynicism and Substack, or Clubhouse, or Miami, or …

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Others involved individual decisions on where to live: do you bet on the future of San Francisco or do you want to partake in the growth of some other startup hub? And Miami is a bet that you can take a top global city without a massive startup ecosystem and agglomerate the talent necessary to compete with San Francisco, New York and Boston.