{"id":214584,"date":"2025-05-23T13:09:39","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T18:09:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/valve-founders-neural-interface-company-to-release-first-brain-chip-this-year"},"modified":"2025-05-23T13:09:39","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T18:09:39","slug":"valve-founders-neural-interface-company-to-release-first-brain-chip-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/valve-founders-neural-interface-company-to-release-first-brain-chip-this-year","title":{"rendered":"Valve Founder\u2019s Neural Interface Company to Release First Brain Chip This Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/I0zXkwLs_lo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Valve founder Gabe Newell\u2019s neural chip company <a href=\"https:\/\/starfishneuroscience.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Starfish Neuroscience<\/a> announced it\u2019s developing a custom chip designed for next-generation, minimally invasive brain-computer interfaces\u2014and it may be coming sooner than you think.<\/p>\n<p>The company announced in <a href=\"https:\/\/starfishneuroscience.com\/blog\/ultra-low-power-miniature-electrophysiological-electronics\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a blog update<\/a> that it\u2019s creating a custom, ultra-low power neural chip in collaboration with R&amp;D leader <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imec-int.com\/en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">imec<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Starfish says the chip is intended for future wireless, battery-free brain implants capable of reading and stimulating neural activity in multiple areas simultaneously\u2014a key requirement for treating complex neurological disorders involving circuit-level dysfunction. That\u2019s the \u2018read and write\u2019 functions we\u2019ve heard <a href=\"https:\/\/www.roadtovr.com\/gabe-newell-brain-computer-interfaces-way-closer-matrix-people-realize\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Newell speak about in previous talks on the subject<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Valve founder Gabe Newell\u2019s neural chip company Starfish Neuroscience announced it\u2019s developing a custom chip designed for next-generation, minimally invasive brain-computer interfaces\u2014and it may be coming sooner than you think. The company announced in a blog update that it\u2019s creating a custom, ultra-low power neural chip in collaboration with R&amp;D leader imec. Starfish says the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214584\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}