A group of ex-Intel engineers and execs, who founded a RISC-V startup called AheadComputing last year, have raised $21.5 million in seed money, reports Reuter’s.

AheadComputing, of Portland Oregon, is applying RISC-V to addressing the challenges of AI’s enormous demands on  processing capability,

Investors include Jim Keller, CEao of RISC-V developer Tenstorrent,  Eclipse Ventures, Maverick Capital, Fundomo and EPIQ Capital Group. 

AheadComputing Co-founder and CEO Debbie Marr (pictured) was an Intel Fellow and Chief Architect of Intel’s Advanced Architecture Development Group (AADG).

 

Marr believes that because the RISC-V ecosystem is open – unlike Arm and Intel – there’s room for hundreds of players and technological innovation.