Startup formed by former Intel engineers and backed by AMD legendary chip designer wants to become the Arm of RISC-V
AheadComputing has raised $21.5M to develop a 64-bit RISC-V microprocessor Led by ex-Intel engineers, it sees RISC-V disrupting x86 and Arm dominance The company plans rapid growth, focusing on licensing, AI, cloud, and mobile A startup created in 2024 by former Intel engineers is betting on RISC-V becoming the dominant computing architecture of the future. Portland, Oregon based AheadComputing has raised $21.5 million in seed funding led by Eclipse, with participation from Jim Keller. The veteran chip designer is the mastermind behind AMD's Zen architecture and Tesla's original self-driving chip, and is currently the CEO of Tenstorrent, one of our 10 hottest AI hardware companies to follow in 2025 . AheadComputing believes that "everyone deserves a better computer" and that the shift away from proprietary architectures is inevitable. It plans to develop 64-bit RISC-V microprocessor architecture and "push the boundaries of what's possible in comput...