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40 records Generated from this page's data. Click a name to open its panel on the Places: East of England page. Records resting on one source are tagged "one source".| Record | What it is | Place | Links | Confidence |
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| Agile AnalogCompanies | Designs analogue circuit blocks that chip makers can adapt and add to their own chips. No AI-specific product was found. | Cambridge (CB4 0AE) | Companies House · uktech.news/news/cambridge-deep-tech-agile-analo · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov. · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov. | verified |
| 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 |
| ArmCompanies | Designs processor blueprints that other companies license to build chips for phones, cars and AI servers, and since 2026 sells its own data-centre chip. | 110 Fulbourn Road, Cambridge (CB1 9NJ) | Companies House · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov. · sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1973239/000197323926 · newsroom.arm.com/news/arm-agi-cpu-launch · uktech.news/semiconductor/britains-biggest-semic | verified |
| Arm AGI CPUChips, models and products | Arm's first chip sold under its own name: a data-centre processor for running AI agents, built by TSMC. | England: East of England | newsroom.arm.com/news/arm-agi-cpu-launch · newsroom.arm.com/blog/arm-a-to-z-2025 | one source |
| Arm C1 CPU clusterChips, models and products | Arm CPU cluster with the SME2 matrix extension, claimed up to five times faster at AI than the previous generation. launched | Cambridge | newsroom.arm.com/blog/arm-a-to-z-2025 | one source |
| Arm Corstone-320 IoT Reference Design PlatformChips, models and products | Arm reference design pairing a Cortex-M85 CPU, Mali-C55 image processor and Ethos-U85 NPU for voice, audio and vision AI devices. launched | Cambridge | newsroom.arm.com/news/iot-reference-design-platf | one source |
| Arm Cortex-A320 CPUChips, models and products | Armv9 CPU for IoT devices, paired with Ethos-U85 in Arm's edge AI platform; available through Flexible Access from November 2025. launched | Cambridge | newsroom.arm.com/news/armv9-edge-ai-platform · newsroom.arm.com/news/arm-flexible-access-armv9- | lab's own pages |
| Arm Ethos-U85 NPUChips, models and products | Arm's neural processing unit for edge AI, supporting transformer networks; claims 4x performance of its predecessor. launched | Cambridge | newsroom.arm.com/news/iot-reference-design-platf · newsroom.arm.com/news/armv9-edge-ai-platform | lab's own pages |
| Arm Flexible AccessSchemes, programmes and AI lines | Arm programme giving start-ups low- or no-cost up-front access to its chip IP; added the Armv9 edge AI platform in October 2025; 300+ members. | Cambridge | newsroom.arm.com/news/arm-flexible-access-armv9- · newsroom.arm.com/blog/arm-embedded-world-2026 | verified |
| Arm Lumex CSSChips, models and products | Arm compute subsystem (CPUs, GPUs and system IP) built to speed up AI on flagship smartphones and PCs. launched | Cambridge | newsroom.arm.com/blog/arm-a-to-z-2025 | one source |
| Arm neural technology (GPU neural accelerators)Chips, models and products | Arm technology adding dedicated neural accelerators to its 2026 GPUs. announced | Cambridge | newsroom.arm.com/blog/arm-a-to-z-2025 | one source |
| Arm Scalable Matrix Extension 2 (SME2)Chips, models and products | Arm CPU architecture extension for matrix maths used to speed up AI in Lumex and the C1 cluster. launched | Cambridge | newsroom.arm.com/blog/top-12-innovations-from-ar | one source |
| Arm Zena CSSChips, models and products | Arm's pre-integrated compute subsystem for cars, pitched at "AI-defined vehicles". launched | Cambridge | newsroom.arm.com/blog/arm-a-to-z-2025 | one source |
| Armv9 Edge AI platformChips, models and products | Arm platform combining Cortex-A320 and Ethos-U85 so AI models of over a billion parameters can run on a device. launched | Cambridge | newsroom.arm.com/news/armv9-edge-ai-platform · newsroom.arm.com/blog/arm-a-to-z-2025 | lab's own pages |
| Blueshift MemoryCompanies | Designs a computer memory architecture that cuts data movement between processor and memory, to speed up AI and other data-heavy work. | Cambridge (from Package 1; not reconfirmed) | Companies House · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov. · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov. · gov.uk/government/publications/semiconductor-sec | one source |
| Cambridge GaN Devices (CGD)Companies | Designs power chips made from gallium nitride that waste less electricity, for data centres, electric cars and industry. | St John's Innovation Park, Cambridge (CB4 0DS) | Companies House · uktech.news/semiconductor/semiconductor-firm-cam · uktech.news/semiconductor/britains-biggest-semic · uktech.news/news/promising-deep-tech-startups-of · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov. | verified |
| Cambridge MicroelectronicsCompanies | Next-generation high-frequency GaN power ICs for data centre and AI rack power delivery. | Cambridge | — | one source |
| CamGraPhICCompanies | Cambridge spin-out making graphene photonic transceivers for AI interconnects. | Cambridge | gov.uk/government/publications/semiconductor-sec | one source |
| CHERI Alliance and Arm Morello software stackChips, models and products | Capability-based hardware security ISA extensions developed by the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory and SRI International. | Cambridge | — | one source |
| CML MicrosystemsCompanies | Mixed-signal, RF, and microwave semiconductor designer for industrial communications and edge sensing. | Maldon, Essex | — | one source |
| FocalPoint Positioning S-GNSS edge receiverChips, models and products | Physics-informed AI super-correlation positioning receiver hardware for wearables and autonomous vehicles. | Cambridge | — | one source |
| Forefront RFCompanies | Tunable RF front-end cancellation chip company spun out of Bristol/Cambridge research. | Cambridge | — | one source |
| Imagination E-Series GPUChips, models and products | A family of graphics-processor designs from Imagination that runs both graphics and AI on devices such as phones and cars. | England: East of England | imaginationtech.com/news/ | one source |
| Imagination TechnologiesCompanies | Licenses graphics-processor designs to chipmakers, including GPUs that run AI on phones, cars and other devices. | Imagination House, Home Park Estate, Kings Langley (WD4 8LZ) | Companies House · imaginationtech.com/news/imagination-technologie · imaginationtech.com/news/ · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov. · jonpeddie.com/news/a-new-ceo-a-cleared-deck-is-i | verified |
| lowRISC OpenTitan silicon root of trustChips, models and products | World's first open-source hardware root-of-trust chip architecture, incubated by Cambridge non-profit lowRISC CIC (led by Gavin Ferris & Sir Andy Hopper) and deployed in production by Google, Seagate, and Nuvoton. | Cambridge | — | one source |
| Myrtle.aiCompanies | Makes software that runs machine-learning models on FPGA chips in microseconds, sold mainly to trading firms under the VOLLO name. | Cambridge (CB2 3BZ) | Companies House · myrtle.ai/resources/news/blog-setting-a-new-reco · myrtle.ai/data-use-and-privacy-policy/ · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov. · myrtle.ai/about/ | verified |
| ParagrafCompanies | World's first mass producer of graphene-based electronic devices and Hall-effect magnetic/cryogenic sensors for quantum and AI compute ($148M raised). | Somersham, Cambridgeshire | — | one source |
| Pragmatic SemiconductorCompanies | Makes thin, bendable chips on plastic rather than silicon, including research chips that run small AI classifiers for wearables and medical uses. | Cambridge Science Park (CB4 0WH); manufacturing in Durham | Companies House · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov. · uktech.news/deep-tech/pragmatic-semiconductor-ma · arxiv.org/abs/2510.15519 · pragmaticsemi.com/newsroom | verified |
| Raspberry PiCompanies | Makes low-cost single-board computers in Cambridge and sells add-on boards that run AI models on them. | 194 Cambridge Science Park, Cambridge (CB4 0AB) | Companies House · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov. · raspberrypi.com/news/introducing-the-raspberry-p · raspberrypi.com/news/raspberry-pi-ai-hat/ · newsroom.arm.com/news/arm-flexible-access-armv9- | verified |
| Raspberry Pi AI HAT+Chips, models and products | An add-on board that lets a Raspberry Pi 5 run vision AI models, using Hailo accelerator chips. | England: East of England | raspberrypi.com/news/raspberry-pi-ai-hat/ | one source |
| Raspberry Pi AI HAT+ 2Chips, models and products | An add-on board that lets a Raspberry Pi 5 run generative AI, including small language models, using a Hailo accelerator chip. | England: East of England | raspberrypi.com/news/introducing-the-raspberry-p · newsroom.arm.com/blog/arm-embedded-world-2026 | one source |
| Riverlane Deltaflow.OS and QEC decode silicon IPChips, models and products | Hardware-accelerated Quantum Error Correction (QEC) decoder chips (ASIC/FPGA) capable of decoding millions of syndrome measurements per second. | Cambridge | — | 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 |
| 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 |
| TeraViewCompanies | Cambridge company; the lead says it makes terahertz light equipment used to inspect chips and other materials (not verified here; no AI link found). | Cambridge Research Park, Waterbeach (CB25 9PD) | Companies House · uktech.news/semiconductor/uk-semiconductor-fundi · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov. · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov. | verified |
| UltraSoC (now Siemens EDA Embedded Analytics)Companies | Spun out of Cambridge/Essex; provides on-chip hardware telemetry, cybersecurity monitoring, and performance debugging IP embedded inside AI accelerators and automotive SoCs. | Cambridge | — | one source |
| VOLLOChips, models and products | Myrtle.ai's accelerator that runs machine-learning models on FPGA chips fast enough for trading decisions. | England: East of England | myrtle.ai/resources/news/blog-setting-a-new-reco | one source |
| Wave PhotonicsCompanies | Computational photonics EDA and PDK company enabling fabless silicon photonics design across multiple foundries (£4.5M seed led by UKI2S & Lundbeckfonden). | Cambridge | — | one source |