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13 records Generated from this page's data. Click a name to open its panel on the Places: London page. Records resting on one source are tagged "one source".| Record | What it is | Place | Links | Confidence |
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| Alphawave SemiCompanies | Designs high-speed wired connections, custom chips and chiplets that move data between chips in AI data centres; owned by Qualcomm since December 2025. acquired | London (from London listing and dateline; head office not confirmed on a page opened) | investor.qualcomm.com/news-events/press-releases · barchart.com/story/news/36684950/qualcomm-comple · theregister.com/2025/06/09/qualcomm_alphawave_ac · aria.org.uk/insights/a-deep-dive-on-scaling-comp | verified |
| FractileCompanies | Designs chips and computer systems meant to run large AI models much faster and more cheaply once they have been trained. | London and Bristol (no postcode on a page opened) | Companies House · fractile.ai/news/fractile-raises-220m-to-build-t · uktech.news/ai/fractile-raises-162-8m-to-boost-a · uktech.news/semiconductor/fractile-100m-expansio · uktech.news/ai/fractile-seed-nvidia-ai-chip-2024 | verified |
| Heronic Technologies (HeronIC)Companies | London start-up making software that designs custom AI accelerator architectures for FPGA chips and an ASIC tool flow; ChipStart UK cohort 2. | London | siliconcatalyst.uk/portfolio-companies · gov.uk/government/news/government-scheme-helps-u | verified |
| HyperCIMCompanies | Founded Dec 2023; fabless compute-in-memory (CIM) AI inference accelerator startup eliminating the von Neumann bottleneck. | London/Essex | Companies House | one source |
| Intrinsic Semiconductor TechnologiesCompanies | Develops a new type of memory chip made from silicon oxide that can be built in ordinary chip factories, aimed at edge devices and AI. | London (EC2V 6DN) | Companies House · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov. · uktech.news/deep-tech/intrinsic-receives-7m-2023 · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov. · uktech.news/deep-tech/intrinsic-receives-7m-2023 | verified |
| NeuroWare Innovation and Knowledge CentreNetworks, bodies, events and media | UCL-led national centre for neuromorphic (brain-inspired) computing hardware, with Arm as an anchor partner. | London | gov.uk/government/publications/semiconductor-sec | one source |
| OLIX (formerly Flux Corp)Companies | Designs specialised chips and optical networking for the stage where AI models write their answers, to replace general-purpose graphics processors. | London (UKTN: "London-based"; no postcode on a page opened) | Companies House · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov. · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov. · olix.com · uktech.news/ai/uk-chip-firm-olix-valued-at-more- | verified |
| OLIX DX-1Chips, models and products | A planned OLIX chip that speeds up the step where an AI model produces its output. announced | England: London | thestack.technology/olix-fund-raise-british-ai-c · uktech.news/ai/uk-chip-firm-olix-valued-at-more- | one source |
| Oriole NetworksCompanies | Builds networking equipment that uses light instead of electrical signals to link the thousands of chips inside AI data centres. | London (EC1Y 2AA) | Companies House · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov. · uktech.news/ai/ian-hogarths-plural-leads-17m-ai- · uktech.news/ai/oriole-raises-10m-ai-llm-20240328 · uktech.news/seminconductor/chipmaker-ensilica-sh | one source |
| Quantum Motion cryo-CMOS silicon spin qubit arrayChips, models and products | Standard 300mm foundry CMOS (Bloomsbury/UCL/Oxford spin-out) high-density silicon quantum processor tiles. | London | — | one source |
| SEEQC Single Flux Quantum (SFQ) digital chip platformChips, models and products | Cryogenic digital superconductor control and readout chips co-located directly with quantum/AI processors. | London | — | one source |
| Vaire ComputingCompanies | Designs chips based on reversible computing, which recycle energy instead of losing it as heat, aimed at AI and data-centre processors. | London (EC2V 6DN) | Companies House · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov. · datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/vaire-computing-r · tech.yahoo.com/computing/articles/vaire-computin · community.cadence.com/cadence_blogs_8/b/corporat | verified |
| Vaire Ice River test chipChips, models and products | Vaire's experimental reversible-computing chip, which reuses part of the energy it consumes. announced | England: London | tech.yahoo.com/computing/articles/vaire-computin | one source |