Chief Scientist
Ubitium
Ubitium is developing a universal RISC-V microprocessor built on a Coarse-Grained Reconfigurable Architecture that unifies CPU, DSP, and GPU execution modes into a single processor for physical AI applications. The workload-agnostic design reconfigures at runtime, and the company has demonstrated first silicon on Samsung's 8nm process that can boot Linux without a host CPU.
- Semiconductor
- Hardware
- Artificial Intelligence
- Autonomous Vehicles
- Internet of Things
Updated 22 days ago
Funding
Raised to date
$18MRaised to date based on public sources. This may differ from the amount the company actually raised and is based only on what is publicly available on the internet.
across 2 rounds
FS+1$14M · Seed
Announced Oct 2026 · from article date
Disclosed cumulative: $14M
Not on chart (date unknown): Seed $3.7M
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Problem
Physical AI systems must sense and act in the real world while requiring deterministic real-time response, low power, and adaptability to rapidly evolving models. Traditional embedded systems rely on heterogeneous processor architectures—combinations of CPUs, GPUs, DSPs, and FPGAs—which introduce complexity, latency, and cost. This fragmentation makes development difficult, increases time-to-market, and prevents efficient autonomous operation across a wide range of devices.
Solution
Ubitium has developed a universal RISC-V microprocessor built on a Coarse-Grained Reconfigurable Architecture (CGRA) that unifies multiple compute paradigms—CPU-like out-of-order execution, DSP-style SIMD/MIMD loops, and GPU-like SIMT threads—into a single processor. This workload-agnostic design reconfigures itself at runtime to optimize for whatever application it is running, eliminating the need for heterogeneous processor stacks and costly data transfers between specialized cores. The processor is 100% RISC-V compatible, allowing it to leverage existing software toolchains and ecosystems without proprietary development tools. It has already demonstrated the ability to boot and run standard Linux directly without a host CPU, a world-first for a CGRA, and the company has taped out its first silicon on Samsung 8nm process.
Target Audience
Primary customers are device manufacturers and system integrators in industries such as automotive, industrial automation, defense, and robotics, who need a single processor capable of handling diverse workloads including sensor processing, real-time control, AI inference, and connectivity without deploying multiple specialized chips.
Features
- Single, homogeneous processor architecture that dynamically reconfigures between CPU, DSP, and GPU-like execution modes at runtime
- World's first CGRA to execute Linux without a host CPU, verified with off-the-shelf operating systems
- 100% RISC-V instruction set compatibility, leveraging mature open-source software toolchains and eliminating proprietary ISA lock-in
- Support for deterministic real-time response, essential for autonomous systems that must interact with the physical world
- Taped out on Samsung Foundry's 8nm process, with working first silicon
- Protected by a significant intellectual property portfolio including granted patents on high-performance processor architecture and reconfigurable processing methods
- Replaces traditional heterogeneous processors (CPU + GPU + DSP + FPGA), reducing hardware complexity, data transfer overhead, and overall system cost