US-based startup Moonlake AI has secured US$28 million in a seed funding round led by Nvidia’s NVentures, with participation from angel investors including YouTube co-founder Steve Chen. The startup was co-founded by Fan-Yun Sun, a National Taiwan University and Stanford University graduate, and Sharon Lee.

The year 2025 has brought many changes to the mobile industry. Apple launched its self-developed modem chip in the iPhone 16e, followed by Xiaomi’s Xuanjie O1, its high-profile self-developed system-on-chip (SoC). Although Qualcomm has repeatedly emphasized it is not competing with customers, warning signs from downstream clients can no longer be ignored.

Indian fabless semiconductor startup Silizium Circuits has completed the end-to-end design of a GaAs-based 5G low-noise amplifier (LNA), or front-end module (FEM), marking a step forward in the country’s push for self-reliance in analog and RF chip design.