British AI chip startup Fractile raises a $720 million Series C
Original title: With $720M round, Britain’s Fractile gets a leg up in the race for AI chips
The UK government puts the valuation above £5 billion, and the CEO says first chips and systems ship next year.
Fractile, a UK startup building AI chips and a machine learning compiler for running large language models, raised a $720 million Series C backed by Britain’s Sovereign AI Fund. Thrive Capital led the round with Founders Fund, Lightspeed Venture Partners and Redpoint. After a pivot, Fractile stacks DRAM on each chip to ease the memory-versus-capacity tradeoff for longer agent workloads. CEO Walter Goodwin said the funding will help ship the first chips and systems next year.
Unconfirmed: The roughly $7 billion valuation comes from the Financial Times and a Reuters source, while the government only said over £5 billion.
- The British government stated the valuation was over £5 billion.
- The Financial Times and a Reuters source reported about $7 billion.
- Fractile’s design stacks common DRAM on top of each chip.
- The government framed the round as giving the UK a larger AI-hardware stake.
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Fractile has now become one of the top-funded players in the race for purpose-built AI chips.
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