Silicon Valley raised $22 billion in VC money this year, New York start-up tech companies raised $4.5 billion, London tech start-ups raised $1.4 billion and Berlin tech start-ups raised $1.1 billion.
Silicon Valley’s biggest VC deals were, according to NetworkWorld: Uber $1.4 billion; Tango $280 million; Lyft $250 million; Palantir $165 million; Cloudera $160 million; Box $158 million; Lookout $150 million; Qualtrics $150 million; Nutanix $145 million; Kabam $120 million; DataStax $106 million; Mirantis $100 million.
Berlin had the two biggest European IPOs of the year – Rocket Internet an incubator, and Zalandoo an e-commerce company.
London’s $1.4 billion accounted for 65% of the UK total and is 20x more than it was in 2020.
Google Ventures now has a London office and, earlier this year, Google bought London start-up DeepMind for £400 million.
“Compared with previous members of the product family, the chips are twice as large as the previous ones but, at 5.7 x 6.4 x 1.3mm, the package size is only slightly larger,” said the firm – up from 4.8 x 5.9 x 1.23mm.
Each of the four die – red, green, blue and white, is 2mm2 and can handle up to 4.5A.
Binned at 1.4A, typical output is red=140 lm, green=280 lm, deep blue=1.8W. “If the LED is operated at 4.5A, the brightness per colour increases by factor 2.6″, said Osram.
The white die has a ceramic phosphor, helping to achieve 20,000h lifetime (L50/B50) at 1,000 lm full output.
Stage and exhibition lighting are the intended markets. “Our aim with this new LED is to raise the standard for moving heads in the high-output category,” said product marketing manager Wolfgang Schnabel.
See the LED at the Las Vegas Consumer Electronics Show (CES) next week.
| Osram Ostar Stage LE RTDUW S2WP | |
| Package dimensions | 5.7 x 6.4 x 1.3mm (previously 4.8 x 5.9 x 1.23mm) |
| Chip size | 2 mm² |
| Chip colours | 625nm red 530nm green 453nm blue x=0.32; y=0.33 (CIE 1931) white |
| Typical brightness at 4.5A | Red: 360 lm Green: 680 lm Deep blue: 4.7 W White: 1040 lm (previously 290 lm) |
