Valve CEO Gabe Newell’s Neuralink competitor is expecting its first brain chip this year
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Summary
In 2019, Valve CEO Gabe Newell quietly founded neurotech company Starfish Neuroscience, and now it has revealed it is planning to release its first brain chip later this year.
The chip is a custom electrophysiology chip for recording and stimulating brain activity, for use in disease therapy and for enabling patients to interact with computers.
Starfish plans to develop a less invasive chip than competitors, which will allow simultaneous access to multiple brain regions, and which does not require a battery.
Its first chip is due to arrive in late 2025 and the company is looking for collaborators.
The company also has plans to work on simultaneous brain implants, a precision hyperthermia device to destroy tumours with targeted heat, and a brain reading, robotically guided transcranial magnetic stimulation system.
While some of these technologies could have gaming applications, it is not yet clear how they might translate to gaming.