VyperCore plans 5nm RISC-V server chip and card
VyperCore in Bristol is aiming to design and sell a 5nm chip and card for the server market to accelerate existing software.
For this, VyperCore is ramping up recruitment of hardware and software engineers, looking to double its team of 17 in Bristol and Cambridge over the next few months.
“We are a processor company and we are promising a 5x speed up without changing a line of code with memory safety in hardware,” said Russell Haggar, co-founder, CEO and chair of VyperCore. “This can be inside every CPU from a toaster to a server.”
The company has a single core RISC-V processor called Akurra running on an FPGA using its hardware memory management technology and plans to tape out a single core test chip next year to be followed by a commercial multicore server chip that VyperCore will sell, as well as an accelerator card.
The technology can also be used in all kinds of processors but accelerating datacentre applications is the first target. “We are targeting server class 64bit RISC-V quad core processor, probably in N5 [5nm] and server card hardware,” said Haggar. This is planned for the end of 2026, he says.
The company raised £4m last year and is currently raising another round.
The memory management architecture can accelerate C or C++ code by 2x, and structured, interpreted languages such as Python by 5x without changing any of the code. This will be increasingly important with generative AI producing non-optimised code, he tells eeNews Europe.
This also makes the chip more secure from common software attacks and avoids the need to re-write code in a language such as Rust and is faster than other approaches such as CHERI, says Haggar.
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