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20 records Generated from this page's data. Click a name to open its panel on the Places: South West page. Records resting on one source are tagged "one source".| Record | What it is | Place | Links | Confidence |
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| Axelera AI (UK)Companies | The Bristol research office of a Dutch company that makes AI inference chips and boards for devices at the edge. | Quantum Technologies Innovation Centre, Bristol | bristol.ac.uk/temple-quarter-enterprise-campus/r · ukesf.org/company/axelera-ai/ · eenewseurope.com/en/axelera-ai-raises-27m-for-in | verified |
| Blu WirelessCompanies | Millimetre-wave (60GHz–100GHz) wireless silicon and system IP for high-speed autonomous vehicle and defence mesh networking. | Bristol | — | 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 |
| Effect Photonics UKCompanies | Coherent optical transceiver and Indium Phosphide PIC packaging/manufacturing facility in Devon. | Brixham, Devon | — | one source |
| GraphcoreCompanies | Designs processors and computer systems built for training and running AI models; owned by SoftBank since 2024. acquired | Bristol (postcode not on a page opened) | Companies House · graphcore.ai/posts/graphcore-joins-softbank-grou · graphcore.ai/posts/graphcore-co-founder-and-exec · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov. · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov. | verified |
| Graphcore Bow IPUChips, models and products | Graphcore's third-generation AI processor, the first to use TSMC's wafer-on-wafer 3D stacking; claimed up to 40% more performance than GC200. launched | Bristol | eenewseurope.com/en/graphcore-boosts-ai-performa | one source |
| Graphcore BowPod 1024Chips, models and products | Graphcore rack system holding 1,024 Bow processors for AI training and inference; offered via Cirrascale's cloud. launched | Bristol | eenewseurope.com/en/graphcore-boosts-ai-performa | one source |
| Graphcore Colossus MK1 (GC1)Chips, models and products | Graphcore's first AI processor, shipped to Microsoft in 2018. superseded | England: South West | graphcore.ai/posts/graphcore-co-founder-and-exec | one source |
| Graphcore GC200 IPU (Colossus MK2)Chips, models and products | Graphcore's second-generation 7nm AI processor, made by TSMC, with 1,472 cores and 900MB of on-chip memory. launched | Bristol | eenewseurope.com/en/graphcore-adds-7nm-ai-ipu-an · eenewseurope.com/en/graphcore-boosts-ai-performa | lab's own pages |
| Graphcore IPU-M2000Chips, models and products | Graphcore 1U machine with four GC200 processors, the building block of its data-centre IPU pods. launched | Bristol | eenewseurope.com/en/graphcore-adds-7nm-ai-ipu-an | one source |
| HiLight SemiconductorCompanies | Fabless CMOS and SiGe integrated circuit designer for high-speed optical networking transceivers (PMD/PHY ICs for 100G–800G data centres). | Bristol / Southampton | — | one source |
| Light Trace PhotonicsCompanies | Manufactures turnkey Photonic Integrated Circuit (PIC) rapid prototyping and chip-testing platforms (LightPort) to accelerate optical compute and quantum photonics design. | Bristol | — | one source |
| Moortec Semiconductor (now Synopsys)Companies | World leader in in-chip Process, Voltage, and Temperature (PVT) sensing IP integrated into almost every -edge 3nm/5nm AI GPU and accelerator to prevent thermal throttling. | Plymouth | — | 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 |
| RANsemiCompanies | Fabless 5G/6G Open RAN baseband and edge processing semiconductor vendor. | Bristol | — | 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 |
| XMOSCompanies | Designs xcore chips that combine processing, signal processing, input-output and AI on one device, mainly for voice and audio products. | Programme, 1 All Saints' Street, Bristol (BS1 2LZ) | Companies House · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov. · xmos.com/generative-system-on-chip · xmos.com/newsroom/ · uktech.news/semiconductor/britains-biggest-semic | verified |
| XMOS VocalFusion XVF3620Chips, models and products | An XMOS chip that uses AI to process voice picked up by microphones in devices. | England: South West | xmos.com/newsroom/ | one source |
| XMOS xcore-voiceChips, models and products | XMOS voice AI platform of hardware, software and tools on xcore chips; generally available from 15 April 2023. launched | Bristol | eenewseurope.com/en/xmos-launches-voice-ai-platf | one source |
| XMOS xcore.aiChips, models and products | XMOS low-cost crossover processor for AI in connected devices ("AIoT"), backed by an AIoT software kit with TensorFlow support. launched | Bristol | eenewseurope.com/en/low-cost-ai-processor-target · eenewseurope.com/en/xmos-sdk-for-connected-ai-de | lab's own pages |