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The Pennsylvania Startup Betting That Silicon Still Has Room to Run
Everyone said the next leap in power electronics had to come from exotic materials. iDEAL Semiconductor bet it could wring more out of plain silicon - and now its chips are shipping from a Minnesota fab.
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Akash Systems
Akash Systems is a San Francisco deep-tech company building chips and systems cooled by lab-grown diamond. Its patented GaN-on-Diamond technology pulls heat away from transistors at the nanometer scale, powering everything from CubeSat radios that beam data at 5 Gbps to AI servers that run cooler at higher density. Backed by Khosla Ventures, Founders Fund and the U.S. CHIPS Act, the company is building a 40,000 sq ft diamond-semiconductor fab in West Oakland.
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