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XMOS
British fabless semiconductor company From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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XMOS is a fabless semiconductor company that develops generative systems-on-chips designed to integrate control, input/output, digital signal processing, and artificial intelligence functions. The company's XCORE platform enables users to generate customizable system-on-chips with real-time reconfigurability and deterministic parallel architecture, enabling developers to execute multiple tasks simultaneously.[1]
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History
XMOS was founded in July 2005 by Ali Dixon, James Foster, Noel Hurley, David May, and Hitesh Mehta.[2] It received seed funding from the University of Bristol enterprise fund, and Wyvern seed fund.[3]
The name XMOS is a loose reference to Inmos. Some concepts found in XMOS technology (such as channels and threads) are part of the Transputer legacy.[4]
In the autumn of 2006, XMOS secured funding from Amadeus Capital Partners, DFJ Esprit, and Foundation Capital.[5] It also has strategic investors Robert Bosch Venture Capital GmbH, Huawei Technologies, and Xilinx Inc, which in 2014 invested $26.2 million.[6] Additionally, they received an investment through the sale of 22.3% of the Company's shares to Prelude Trust plc of Cambridge.[7] In September 2017, XMOS secured $15M in an investment round led by Infineon.[8]
In July 2017, XMOS acquired SETEM,[9][10] a company that specialises in audio algorithms for source separation.[11][12]
In 2019, XMOS raised $19 million in funding from Harbert European Growth Capital and existing investors.[13]
In December 2023, XMOS signed a joint development agreement with Sonical for Headphone 3.0 technology.[14]
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Products
Xmos designs multicore microcontrollers under the XCORE series. While the second generation launched in 2015, had dedicated audiocontroller spun off[15] and were used in soundboards as well as headphone amplifiers,[16][17] the third generation was launched in 2020 and focused on applications within the AIoT.[18] The fourth generation added RISC-V compatibility and was announced in December 2022.[19][20]
In 2025, it announced a recategorisation of its XCORE hardware, defining it as a Generative System-on-Chip (GenSoC), a type of SoC that is specifically designed to accommodate generative AI-based natural language tools.[21]
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