AheadComputing

AheadComputing is a Portland, Oregon-based semiconductor startup founded by former Intel CPU architects with over 100 years of combined experience. The company is building the world's highest-performing 64-bit RISC-V application processors to eliminate CPU bottlenecks for AI inference, cloud, mobile, and edge compute. Unlike traditional vendors that scaled through core count, AheadComputing focuses on per-core performance as the defining metric for modern AI-era workloads. The team has collectively shipped over 70 processor products and holds hundreds of compute patents. The company raised a $21.5M seed round and a $30M Seed2 round in January 2026 to accelerate its clean-slate CPU microarchitecture design.