Ubitium has come up with a universal processor – it alone performs the work of the CPU, GPU, FPGA and DSP

For more than 50 years, the semiconductor industry has been based on the Tomasulo hardware algorithm, dividing it into specialized central processors, graphics processors and other chips designed for specific computing tasks. It was initiated by IBM back in 1967, but now there is an alternative to this mechanism.

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Founded by semiconductor industry veterans, chip design startup Ubitium has developed a universal RISC-V processor that can handle all computing workloads equally well. This solution will be useful, for example, in the field of embedded systems and robotics, where the cost of equipment is often a limiting factor for the deployment of advanced computing solutions.

The universal processor is designed for scalability – based on this architecture, you can build a whole range of chips that will vary in size, but have the same microarchitecture and software stack. Developers will be able to expand their projects without changing their development approach. Workload independence greatly simplifies hardware requirements. Ubitium has raised $3.7 million in seed funding to help it accelerate the development of prototypes; The first commercial models could be released by 2026.

«The $500 billion processor industry is built with boundaries between computing tasks. We will erase these boundaries. Our universal processor performs everything – [tasks] CPU, GPU, DSP, FPGA – on one chip, one architecture. This is not just another improvement. This is a paradigm shift. This is the processor architecture that the era of artificial intelligence requires,” said Ubitium CEO Hyun Shin Cho.