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12 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 UKCompanies | Massive FPGA, adaptive SoC (former Xilinx Edinburgh/Cambridge teams), Solarflare ultra-low-latency NIC, and ROCm/AI compiler engineering footprint; validating Oriole Networks photonic switching in 2026. | Cambridge / Edinburgh / Bristol / Milton Keynes | — | one source |
| Apple (UK)Companies · also on Big tech in the UK | The UK arm of the US consumer-electronics company, whose engineering teams in London and Cambridge work on Apple Intelligence and the Siri assistant. | Battersea, London | Companies House · apple.com/uk/newsroom/2024/12/apple-expands-uk-i · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov. | verified |
| Cirrus Logic UKCompanies | Over 500 engineers in Edinburgh (acquired Wolfson Microelectronics) designing ultra-low-power mixed-signal audio and edge voice-AI DSP silicon. | Edinburgh | — | one source |
| Infineon Technologies UKCompanies | Power semiconductors and PSoC Edge AI microcontrollers. | Redhill / Bristol / Warwick | — | one source |
| Microchip Technology UKCompanies | PolarFire FPGA edge-AI design and advanced semiconductor packaging in Caldicot. | Caldicot, South Wales / Wokingham | — | one source |
| Nvidia UKCompanies | Over 500 UK engineers; Bristol is a major hub for Nvidia's networking (Mellanox/Interconnect) and CPU/GPU architecture verification teams. | Bristol / Cambridge / London | — | one source |
| NXP Semiconductors UKCompanies | Automotive radar, NPU-equipped i.MX processors, and secure edge silicon design. | Glasgow / East Kilbride / Southampton | — | one source |
| Qualcomm (UK) — Alphawave SemiCompanies · also on Big tech in the UK | The UK-listed chip connectivity company Alphawave Semi, bought by the US chip designer Qualcomm to build its data-centre and AI chip business. acquired | Companies House · investor.qualcomm.com/news-events/press-releases · investor.qualcomm.com/update-details/update-deta · businesswire.com/news/home/20251218292351/en · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov. | verified | |
| Renesas Electronics UKCompanies | Dialog Semiconductor heritage; develops power management ICs (PMICs) for AI accelerators and embedded Cortex-M AI microcontrollers. | Bourne End / Bristol | — | one source |
| Sony Semiconductor Solutions UKCompanies | Develops the IMX500 intelligent vision sensor series that powers the Raspberry Pi AI Camera. | Basingstoke / Guildford | — | one source |
| Teledyne e2vCompanies | High-reliability space-grade processors, RF power, and advanced CMOS image sensors for machine vision. | Chelmsford, Essex | — | one source |
| Tenstorrent UKCompanies | Led by Jim Keller; co-developing the Open Chiplet Atlas (OCA) open AI rack architecture with ARIA's Scaling Inference Lab (June 2026). | Cambridge / Bristol | — | one source |