Gabe Newell Co-Founded a Neuroscience Company in 2019 and Its First Brain Chip Is Expected to Ship Later This Year

Gabe Newell’s Company Aims to Manufacture Brain Chip Implants

TECH NEWS – No, not Valve. We’re talking about another company founded by Gabe Newell in 2019.   It has come to light that Valve boss Gabe Newell is also the co-founder of Starfish, a neuroscience company working on a broad range of foundational technologies to enable new ways of interacting with the brain. If all goes as planned, the first neural interface chip could reach the market by the end of 2025. Brain interfaces are not a new area of in…

Starfish wants to link the chips in the brain to enable better treatments for patients.

While rumors about Half-Life 3 continue to haunt, Valve founder Gabe Newell seems to be focused on an even more futuristic mission: brain chip development. Newell is now also co-founder of Starfish Neuroscience, a startup dedicated to creating brain-computer interfaces (BCI) for medical purposes. According to the company’s official blog, they are developing a chip capable of recording and stimulating neuronal activity with unprecedented accuracy…

Valve, owner of Steam, plans to deliver its first brain-computer interface chips by the end of this year. Already in 2019, Valve shuffled into the GDC the idea of exploring how brain chips could work for the games. Later, the project took off with a new launch. Since then, Starfish Neuroscience has been working on a custom "electrophysiology" chip and, as explained in the first post of Starfish's blog (via The Verge), this chip will record brain…

Valve CEO Expresses Interest in Brain Chip Implants

Valve co-founder and CEO Gabe Newell is behind a new startup, Starfish Technologies, which plans to release brain-computer interface (BCI) chips as early as this year. While Valve is known for hit game series like Half-Life, Portal, and Counter-Strike, these new chips are not aimed at gaming — at least for now. Instead, Starfish envisions the technology primarily for medical use, targeting neurological disorders such as Parkinson’s disease, in a…

Gabe Newell co-founded a neuroscience company in 2019 and its first brain chip is expected to ship later this year

It's very preliminary at this stage, but things are happening.