ref=”dofollow” data-ga-onclick=”Inarticle articleshow link click#Tech#href” href=”https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/celestial-ai” target=”_blank”>Celestial AI, one of several Silicon Valley ref=”dofollow” data-ga-onclick=”Inarticle articleshow link click#Tech#href” href=”https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/chip-startups” target=”_blank”>chip startups aiming to crack a key speed constraint in artificial intelligence, said on Tuesday it has raised an additional $250 million in data-ga-onclick=”Inarticle articleshow link click#Tech#href” target=”_blank” href=”https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/definition/venture-capital”>venture capital, bringing its total raised to date to $515 million.
Celestial AI is tapping photonics – a technology that uses light, rather than electrical signals – to create speedy links between AI computing chips and memory chips.
The speed of that connection, a measure called ref=”dofollow” data-ga-onclick=”Inarticle articleshow link click#Tech#href” href=”https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/memory-bandwidth” target=”_blank”>memory bandwidth, has become so central to advancing AI systems that it is one of the…
