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14 records Generated from this page's data. Click a name to open its panel on the Places: South East page. Records resting on one source are tagged "one source".| Record | What it is | Place | Links | Confidence |
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| Aion Silicon (formerly Sondrel)Companies | Designs large custom chips for other companies, from specification to production, including chips for AI workloads. renamed | Reading (from release dateline) | Companies House · eenewseurope.com/en/sondrel-is-now-aion-silicon · streetinsider.com/PRNewswire/Premier+ASIC+and+So · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov. · eenewseurope.com/en/aion-silicon-wins-12m-risc-v | verified |
| Cascoda Chili2 IoT edge moduleChips, models and products | Ultra-low-power Thread/Matter secure edge sensor module ($1.1M+ raised; Chilworth, Southampton). | Southampton | — | one source |
| CORNERSTONE silicon photonics foundryNetworks, bodies, events and media | Silicon-photonics research foundry run across Southampton, Glasgow and STFC; applications include AI hardware. | Southampton | gov.uk/government/publications/semiconductor-sec | one source |
| Element SixCompanies | De Beers subsidiary producing synthetic single-crystal and CVD diamond substrates for extreme thermal management of high-TDP AI chips and quantum sensors. | Didcot / Ascot | — | one source |
| EnSilicaCompanies | Designs and supplies custom chips for other companies, including photonics controller chips for an optical AI networking start-up. | Milton Park, Abingdon (OX14 4RY) | Companies House · ensilica.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Project- · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov. · uktech.news/seminconductor/chipmaker-ensilica-sh · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov. | verified |
| Imperas Software (acquired by Synopsys)Companies | Pioneer of RISC-V instruction-set simulators (ISS), virtual prototypes, and processor verification tools used across custom AI accelerator design. | Thame, Oxfordshire | — | one source |
| Infineon Technologies UKCompanies | Power semiconductors and PSoC Edge AI microcontrollers. | Redhill / Bristol / Warwick | — | one source |
| LumaiCompanies | Builds optical computers that do the arithmetic inside AI models with light instead of electronics, to cut the cost and power of running them. | Wood Centre for Innovation, Headington, Oxford (OX3 8SB) | Companies House · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov. · datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/lumai-raises-10-m · newelectronics.co.uk/content/news/lumai-secures- · uktech.news/deep-tech/lumai-grant-20230215 | verified |
| Oxford Ionics Electronic Qubit Control (EQC) silicon chipsChips, models and products | Standard CMOS-compatible trapped-ion quantum processor chips controlled via electronic voltages rather than lasers. | Oxford | — | one source |
| 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 |
| Salience LabsCompanies | Makes photonic chips and all-optical switches that connect the graphics processors in AI data centres using light. | Milton, Oxfordshire (no postcode on a page opened) | Companies House · tech.eu/2026/10/14/salience-labs-secures-125m-to · thenextweb.com/news/salience-labs-125m-optical-s · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov. · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov. | verified |
| Salience Labs 64-port all-optical switchChips, models and products | An optical switch with 64 ports that routes data between AI chips as light, without converting it to electrical signals. announced | England: South East | thenextweb.com/news/salience-labs-125m-optical-s · tech.eu/2026/10/14/salience-labs-secures-125m-to | one source |
| SoC Labs AI chip design skills programmeSchemes, programmes and AI lines | Three-year, £3m DSIT-funded UK-wide programme at Southampton's SoC Labs to train chip designers and support AI hardware start-ups and academics. | Southampton | southampton.ac.uk/news/2026/06/southampton-to-he | one source |
| Sony Semiconductor Solutions UKCompanies | Develops the IMX500 intelligent vision sensor series that powers the Raspberry Pi AI Camera. | Basingstoke / Guildford | — | one source |