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]
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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