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Fractile raises £160m+ for UK AI chip ‘moonshot’

Published: May 14, 2026 at 9:07 am

Author: Jonathan Symcox

A UK company aiming to build a chip to deliver exponential performance improvements for AI models has raised £160 million funding.

Fractile, which in 2024 exited stealth with £12m in seed funding, was founded in 2022 by artificial intelligence PhD Walter Goodwin.

It has developed a radically different approach to the design of chips for AI inference that it claims can deliver transformational improvements in performance for frontier AI models in deployment.

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