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13 records Generated from this page's data. Click a name to open its panel on the Chips and hardware page. Records resting on one source are tagged "one source".| Record | What it is | Place | Links | Confidence |
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| AMD (as investor)Investors and funds · also on Investors, Big tech in the UK | The US chip company; an investor in Recursive Superintelligence and, through AMD Ventures, CuspAI. | tech.eu/2026/05/13/recursive-superintelligence-e · tech.eu/2026/07/20/jeff-bezos-and-sovereign-ai-b · gov.uk/government/news/britain-powers-ahead-on-a · gov.uk/government/news/a-decisive-shift-to-power | one source | |
| CallosumCompanies · also on Software and tools | Builds software that matches each AI task to the best mix of chips and computers to run it.AI compute orchestrationProfile
Round 6 deep profile (30 Oct 2026), as the researchers wrote it; sources are listed in the record panel. | London | Companies House · uktech.news/funding/uk-tech-funding-roundup-this · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov. · gov.uk/government/publications/uk-ai-hardware-pl · gov.uk/government/news/ai-firms-pioneering-drug- | one source |
| Codasip UKCompanies | Custom RISC-V processor IP and CheriBSD/CHERI-RISC-V secure processor cores, with a major engineering hub in Bristol. | Bristol | — | one source |
| HyperCIMCompanies | Founded Dec 2023; fabless compute-in-memory (CIM) AI inference accelerator startup eliminating the von Neumann bottleneck. | London/Essex | Companies House | one source |
| MignonCompanies | ChipStart UK cohort 1 start-up designing more energy-efficient chips for running AI models on devices. | siliconcatalyst.uk/helping-parkinsons-patients-a · siliconcatalyst.uk/sicuk-companies | one source | |
| Normal Computing UKCompanies | UK arm of Normal Computing; ARIA Scaling Compute team building "thermodynamic computing" units for AI hardware. | aria.org.uk/insights/a-deep-dive-on-scaling-comp · eenewseurope.com/en/66m-for-uk-ai-hardware-proje | verified | |
| Rain AI UKCompanies | UK team of US AI-chip firm Rain AI; two ARIA Scaling Compute projects on energy-minimising learning and resistive-network compute. active (see Gaps) | aria.org.uk/insights/a-deep-dive-on-scaling-comp · eenewseurope.com/en/66m-for-uk-ai-hardware-proje | verified | |
| RED SemiconductorCompanies | Fabless start-up that has designed the VISC (Vector+RISC) processor, pitched at efficient edge AI; ChipStart UK cohort 1. | siliconcatalyst.uk/portfolio-companies | one source | |
| RigpaCompanies | Edinburgh start-up developing a neuromorphic AI chip; ChipStart UK cohort 2. | Edinburgh | eenewseurope.com/en/11-chip-companies-for-second | one source |
| Secqai LtdCompanies · also on Start-ups | Developing a neuromorphic computing unit for ultra-low-power AI, funded under the AI for Decarbonisation programme. active (DESNZ grant) | London | gov.uk/government/publications/artificial-intell | one source |
| SignaloidCompanies | Cambridge company in ARIA's Scaling Compute programme working on a CMOS digital "thermodynamic" AI hardware accelerator for linear algebra. | Cambridge | eenewseurope.com/en/66m-for-uk-ai-hardware-proje · aria.org.uk/insights/a-deep-dive-on-scaling-comp | verified |
| Snowcap ComputeCompanies | Developing superconducting cryogenic AI inference processors using niobium titanium nitride for ultra-low-energy data-centre AI inference (led by ex-Arm CEO Simon Segars). | Cambridge/US | — | one source |
| VyperCoreCompanies | Founded by Russell Haggar and Ed Nutting; developing hardware-accelerated memory-management and garbage-collection processor technology that speeds up general-purpose and AI data-centre workloads by up to 5x while guaranteeing memory safety (£4M+ seed led by Octopus Ventures). | Bristol / Cambridge | — | one source |