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From edge to cloud: The critical role of hardware in AI applications

CIO

The world has woken up to the power of generative AI and a whole ecosystem of applications and tools are quickly coming to life. All this has a tremendous impact on the digital value chain and the semiconductor hardware market that cannot be overlooked. Hardware innovations become imperative to sustain this revolution.

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7 common pitfalls for hardware startups and how to avoid them

TechCrunch

You’ve likely heard that “hardware is hard”; mostly because hardware startups have to deal with things that software companies don’t really have to worry about. ” Hardware development is complex and challenging. Hardware development is inherently a lot more costly than cranking out software.

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EnCharge AI emerges from stealth with $21.7M to develop AI accelerator hardware

TechCrunch

EnCharge AI , a company building hardware to accelerate AI processing at the edge , today emerged from stealth with $21.7 Speaking to TechCrunch via email, co-founder and CEO Naveen Verma said that the proceeds will be put toward hardware and software development as well as supporting new customer engagements.

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Prelaunch assembles a pre-seed round to help hardware founders pre-build the right pre-products

TechCrunch

Hardware startups are hard, the saying goes, but it isn’t always obvious why they are hard. ” How the FirstBuild product co-creation studio is changing how new things are made Prelaunch is founded on the core belief that the current practices in hardware product development basically haven’t changed in the last 100 years.

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Mavenoid, which automates technical support and onboarding for hardware companies, raises $30M

TechCrunch

Mavenoid , a Swedish company that provides both human- and AI-enabled support and troubleshooting tools for hardware companies, has raised $30 million in a series B round of funding. Hardware issues are repetitive, difficult, and time-consuming to fix. ” Technical support. .”

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Five Flute annotates hardware product development into the current millennium

TechCrunch

If you’re working in hardware development, there’s not a lot of options for collaborative work — at least not until Five Flute came along. As hard as that job is, though, at least software PMs have a stack of software to help them do their jobs.

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How to Develop IoT Applications: A Complete Guide for 2022

The Crazy Programmer

People create IoT applications; people use IoT applications—the world’s technology grows from the internet to the Internet of Things, from middlemen transaction processes to Smart Contracts. How do you develop IoT applications ? The software is crucial because it links to the hardware through the cloud and the network.

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