2 years ago
VyperCore Secures £4M Seed Funding to Boost Data Center Performance and Security
VyperCore, a Cambridge, UK-based processor startup specializing in data centre compute performance and security, has raised £4 million in Seed funding
Backers include 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
VyperCore's technology aims to accelerate existing compute workloads without rewriting application code
The company'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.
ProblemTechnology
"accelerating generic CPU architectures to optimize execution of existing code and blocking memory-oriented cybersecurity attacks"
Solution
"defining an object-based view of the memory from within the core of the processor, allowing substantial optimisations in execution of existing code"