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Staera emerges from stealth with $4.6m in pre-seed funding
What happened
Staera Semiconductor of San Francisco, CA, USA has emerged from stealth with a technology that builds optical data links directly into silicon chips, targeting the problem that moving data between chips limits how fast and how large AI systems can grow. Formerly New Silicon Corp (NSC), the company has raised $4.6m in pre-seed funding, led by Openspace Capital with participation from SGInnovate, Black Kite Capital, 28 Holdings, In Group, and Decimus Technologies.
Impact and signal
Medium impactImpact score: 45/100
Affected components and suppliers
optical data links built into silicon chips
Staera Semiconductor
fundingpre-seedstealthoptical interconnectAI chip-to-chip data links
Source and time
Source: Semiconductor Today · 11/10/2026 · View original source
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