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| Company type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | Semiconductors |
| Founded | July 2005, Bristol, UK |
| Headquarters | , |
Key people | Mark Lippet (CEO & President) |
| Products | Voice controllers, Multicore microcontrollers, xCore, xCORE-200, xCORE-AUDIO, xCORE-VOICE, xCORE VocalFusion, xTIMEcomposer |
| Brands | xCORE, VocalFusion |
| Website | www |
XMOS is a fabless semiconductor company that develops audio products and multicore microcontrollers.
XMOS was founded in July 2005 by Ali Dixon, James Foster, Noel Hurley, David May, and Hitesh Mehta. [1] It received seed funding from the University of Bristol enterprise fund, and Wyvern seed fund. [2]
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. [3]
In the autumn of 2006, XMOS secured funding from Amadeus Capital Partners, DFJ Esprit, and Foundation Capital. [4] It also has strategic investors Robert Bosch Venture Capital GmbH, Huawei Technologies, and Xilinx Inc, which in 2014 invested $26.2 million. [5] Additionally, they received an investment through the sale of 22.3% of the Company's shares to Prelude Trust plc of Cambridge. [6] In September 2017, XMOS secured $15M in an investment round led by Infineon. [7]
In July 2017, XMOS acquired SETEM, [8] [9] a company that specialises in audio algorithms for source separation. [10] [11]
In 2019, XMOS raised $19 million in funding from Harbert European Growth Capital and existing investors. [12]
In December 2023, XMOS signed a joint development agreement with Sonical for Headphone 3.0 technology. [13]
Xmos designs multicore microcontrollers under the xCORE series. While the second generation launched in 2015, had dedicated audiocontroller spun off [14] and were used in soundboards as well as headphone amplifiers, [15] [16] the third generation was launched in 2020 and focused on applications within the AIoT. [17] The fourth generation added RISC-V compatibility and was announced in December 2022. [18] [19]
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