Company profile
RED Semiconductor
Oxfordshire company developing licensable RISC-V based processor IP aimed at energy-efficient edge artificial intelligence workloads, working with UK design partners and a member of RISC-V International.
Company overview
RED Semiconductor develops VISC, a processor architecture for real-time, low-power algorithm acceleration at the edge. Its semiconductor work centres on compute architecture incorporating RISC-V CPU technology and proprietary inline flow-control acceleration. The design targets continuous mathematical workloads, including edge AI, cryptography and signal processing, with reduced clock cycles and memory accesses as design objectives. VISC is intended for integration by system-on-chip teams, IP integrators and system builders. Applications described by the company include automotive sensor fusion, smart energy, telecommunications, healthcare devices and data centre pre-processing. The company states that it is headquartered in the UK and supported by the Silicon Catalyst incubator. Its website identifies RED Semiconductor International Ltd as the registered entity. Companies House records this company as active, incorporated on 24 April 2018, with its registered office at Harwell Innovation Centre on the Harwell Science & Innovation Campus, Didcot, Oxfordshire.
Semiconductor activity
Primary capability: Semiconductor IP. Supply-chain role: Processor architecture developer, Semiconductor IP developer.
Technologies and capabilities
- AI Accelerators
- ASIC
- Silicon
- VISC compute architecture
- RISC-V CPU architecture
- Inline flow-control acceleration
- Edge AI acceleration
- Cryptographic algorithm acceleration
- Matrix multiplication acceleration
VISC processor architecture; Algorithm acceleration technology for edge processing
Markets served
- Smart energy
- Automotive
- Telecommunications
- Healthcare devices
- Data centres
- Industrial applications
UK presence
Registered office: 173 Harwell Innovation Centre, Harwell Science & Innovation Campus, Didcot OX11 0QG. Part of the Thames Valley cluster.