IT Home June 7th news, according to US media OregonLive on the 6th, four engineers who worked at Intel for nearly 100 years total founded AheadComputing, a startup.
The four of them are Intel's top chip architects. They have been responsible for the research and development of forward-looking microprocessors for a long time. Now they choose to start an independent business, devote themselves to a chip development work of a brand new architecture, and have completely gotten rid of Intel's original system.
AheadComputing was founded a year ago and is committed to proving that chip design can have more solutions. CEO Debbie Marr said the company is setting to build the "world's most powerful CPU", betting on an open architecture called RISC-V. This architecture advocates designing processors in a more simplified way, focusing on doing a few critical tasks, thus surpassing traditional processors in efficiency. For the founder and the company's 80 employees (IT Home Note: most of them are also from Intel), this means a complete farewell to the familiar work model over the past few decades. "Everyone of us here could have stayed at Intel and continued to participate in exciting projects," Marr said. But she believes that compared to seeking change within large companies, startups are more likely to lead changes in the semiconductor field, and AheadComputing is also expected to become a pioneer in the revival of the Oregon semiconductor industry. "We saw this opportunity, this light of hope, so we decided to give it a try."
AheadComputing's chip products will still take several years to commercialize and are expected to be used in areas such as PCs, notebooks and data centers in the future. Potential customers include large technology companies such as Google, Amazon, and Samsung.
