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CPU startup New Valkyrie, founded only six months ago, is seeking financing, with a target valuation of about $2.5 billion and fundraising of several hundred million dollars. Its founder previously led three generations of architecture at ARM, Apple, and Qualcomm. Its approach is to first define the core functions and then choose the architecture, deliberately avoiding X86 and ARM, and targeting the demand from data center CPU scheduling and the surge in AI agents.
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