What just happened? In the heart of Oregon’s Silicon Forest, a group of veteran chip architects has traded the security of a tech giant for the high-stakes world of startups, aiming to redefine the future of microprocessors. The founders of AheadComputing, who collectively spent nearly a century at Intel, are now channeling their expertise into building a new class of CPU, one they believe could upend the industry’s established order.
Rather than building on the legacy of x86, the team is betting on RISC-V, which they believe is better suited to the demands of modern workloads, particularly those driven by artificial intelligence and cloud computing.
AheadComputing’s founders are focused on a technical challenge that has stymied the industry: the bottleneck in per-core performance as AI and machine learning workloads become ubiquitous.