A group of ex-Intel engineers and execs, who founded a RISC-V startup called AheadComputing last year, have raised $21.5 million in seed money, reports Reuter's.
electronicsweekly.com, Feb. 20, 2025 –
AheadComputing, of Portland Oregon, is applying RISC-V to addressing the challenges of AI's enormous demands on processing capability, Investors include Jim Keller, CEao of RISC-V developer Tenstorrent, Eclipse Ventures, Maverick Capital, Fundomo and EPIQ Capital Group.
AheadComputing Co-founder and CEO Debbie Marr (pictured) was an Intel Fellow and Chief Architect of Intel's Advanced Architecture Development Group (AADG).
Marr believes that because the RISC-V ecosystem is open – unlike Arm and Intel – there's room for hundreds of players and technological innovation...