VyperCore, a Cambridge, UK-based processor startup which specializes in data centre compute performance and security, raised £4M in Seed funding.
Backers included Octopus Ventures, Foresight WAE Technology, Science Creates Ventures, British Growth Fund and Silicon Roundabout Ventures.
The company intends to use the funds to open design centres in Cambridge, UK and Bristol, UK, and to develop its first generation of accelerated compute silicon.
Founded in 2022 by Ed Nutting and Russell Haggar, VyperCore is based on research into acceleration of generic CPU architectures undertaken at the University of Bristol. Its technology aims to accelerate existing compute workloads, without rewriting application code. By defining an object-based view of the memory from within the core of the processor, substantial optimisations in execution of existing code can be achieved, while blocking memory-oriented cybersecurity attack vectors such as memory leaks and buffer overflows.
VyperCore’s first generation hardware will be based on the RISC-V architecture and will sample with partners in its Early Access Program in Q3 2024.
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28/04/2023