Socratic Partners portfolio company strengthens commercial leadership as it brings next-generation AI networking infrastructure to market Eridu, the AI networking company building a clean-sheet switching architecture designed from the ground up for
Analog Devices, Inc. today announced the completion of its acquisition of Empower Semiconductor. The combination further strengthens ADI’s position as a leading strategic, system-level grid-to-core power partner across the entire AI ecosystem,
U.S. chipmaker Analog Devices, said on Tuesday it would acquire Empower Semiconductor for about $1.5 billion in cash, expanding its AI-focused power management portfolio. The companies said the deal will help advance
Eridu founders Drew Perkins and Omar Hassen explain why legacy networking creates a bottleneck in AI data centers, severely wasting GPU investments. AI data centers are burning through billions of dollars in
Summary Santa Clara-based nEye.ai raised $80 million in Series C led by Sutter Hill Ventures, with CapitalG, M12, and Socratic Partners, bringing total funding to $152 million. The company will scale manufacturing
New Ethernovia HSB platform accelerates real-time sensor data streaming and edge AI workloads on NVIDIA Holoscan systems Ethernovia, Inc., a leader in high-performance Ethernet networking and packet-processing silicon for physical AI systems,
Frontier networking solution, purpose-built for AI, delivers order-of-magnitude leap in performance and scalability Eridu, the pioneer advancing the frontier in AI networking, today announced that it has raised more than $200M in
Two APEC industry sessions and next-generation current density advances underscore Empower’s leadership in powering kilowatt-class AI processors Empower Semiconductor, the world leader in powering artificial intelligence (AI) kilowatt-class processors, today announced its
Empower Semiconductor will present the latest power delivery network–optimization strategies at Chiplet Summit and DesignCon 2026 Empower Semiconductor, the world leader in powering artificial intelligence (AI)-class processors, today announced the launch of
Role: Associate Overview Socratic Partners is a semiconductor and AI-infrastructure focused investment firm backed by leading strategic LPs and financial institutions. We invest in technically differentiated companies solving foundational bottlenecks across compute,
Semiconductor startup Ethernovia Inc. revealed today that it has raised more than $90 million in new funding to accelerate development and production of its next-generation packet processor family, expand software and systems
Open OCS to deliver high-performance AI Cluster Networking The Open Compute Project Foundation (OCP), the nonprofit organization bringing hyperscale innovations to all, today announced the formation of a new Optical Circuit Switching
Startup has raised $72.5m since founding in 2020 Silicon photonics startup nEye Systems has closed a $58 million funding round. The Series B round was led by CapitalG and saw participation from
Author: Ramin Shirani, CEO and Co-Founder, Ethernovia Few industries witness more innovative futurecasting than the automotive industry. Since the development of the first passenger car in the late 19th century, automakers have
