AI startup DevRev completes $100 million in financing, with a valuation of $1.15 billion

❶ AI startup DevRev completes $100 million in financing, with a valuation of $1.15 billion

DevRev, a startup that uses artificial intelligence (AI) for customer support and other tasks, has raised $100 million in funding from Khosla Ventures and other investors at a valuation of $1.15 billion. DevRev, co-founded in 2020 by CEO Dheeraj Pandey, who also helped found Nutanix, says its product uses AI to improve the efficiency of employees in support, product and engineering teams. In an interview, Dheeraj Pandey said the technology will help make employees more efficient. (Ai Jiwei)

❷ Aiming at L4 autonomous driving, NVIDIA's next-generation in-vehicle autonomous driving domain control chip NVIDIAThor landed in the "Hefei Factory"

On August 12, according to the official WeChat account of "Hefei Economic Development Zone", the automotive-grade domain controller AD1 for the L4 autonomous driving market has been successfully rolled off the production line for the first time at the Lianbao factory located in Hefei Economic Development Zone, which means Lianbao Technology has become one of the first factories to realize the production of NVIDIA DRIVEThor chip products. NVIDIAThor is the next-generation automotive autonomous driving domain control chip newly developed by NVIDIA. The whole board has about 16,600 points, nearly 10,000 components, and 8 DDRs. It is said that it can concentrate all smart car functions on a single chip, thereby achieving safe and reliable autonomous driving. (Jiemian News)

❸Lanqi Technology: The third-generation RCD chip will be shipped in large quantities from the second half of the year

According to the "Science and Technology Innovation Board Daily" on the 12th, the recent research minutes of Lanqi Technology showed that since the beginning of this year, the company's memory interface and module supporting chip demand has achieved a recovery growth, the downstream penetration rate of DDR5 has increased, and the iteration of DDR5 sub-generations has continued to advance. In the first half of 2024, the company's DDR5 second-generation RCD chip shipments have exceeded the first-generation RCD chips, and the third-generation RCD chips will be shipped in large quantities from the second half of 2024. (Science and Technology Innovation Board Daily)

❹ Passenger car cockpit chip delivery list in the first half of the year: Qualcomm ranked second, and Xinchi and HiSilicon entered the top ten

Recently, Gaogong Intelligent Automobile Research Institute released the "Top 10 Passenger Car Cockpit Chip Delivery in China in the First Half of 2024" list. Based on the statistics of actual pre-installed delivery models, the top ten companies in terms of passenger car cockpit (including instrument, entertainment, domain control) chip delivery in China in the first half of this year (excluding imports and exports) are: NXP, Qualcomm, Renesas, TI, MediaTek, NVIDIA, Intel, SemiDrive Technology, AMD, and HiSilicon. (Aijiwei)