About HyperCIM
HyperCIM is a small London-based start-up developing a Latency Processing Unit, an add-in device meant to take data preprocessing and protocol handling off CPUs and GPUs. It is built on compute-in-memory, which does calculations inside non-volatile memory cells instead of shuttling data to a separate processor, a design the company says cuts power use. Its first target is financial services. The company was incorporated in December 2023 and is incubated through Deep Science Ventures and Silicon Catalyst UK. No shipped product or customers have been confirmed.
HyperCIM was founded in 2023 and is based in London, United Kingdom. It is listed under AI Accelerators, In-Memory Computing, Edge Computing.
Compute Technologies
- AI Accelerators
- In-Memory Computing
- Edge Computing
What HyperCIM works on
AI Accelerators
An AI accelerator is a chip, or a part of a chip, designed to run machine learning faster or with less energy than a general-purpose processor. The category includes GPUs, TPUs, neural processing units (NPUs) and chips from many startups.
In-Memory Computing
In-memory computing does calculations inside or right next to the memory that stores the data, instead of copying the data to a separate processor. It is also called processing-in-memory (PIM) or compute-in-memory.
Edge Computing
Edge computing means processing data close to where it is produced, on a device or a nearby server, instead of sending everything to a distant cloud data center. In chip terms, edge processors are small, low-power chips that run software and AI models inside phones, cameras, cars and sensors.
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