InspireSemi
InspireSemi is a fabless semiconductor company building "Thunderbird," a RISC-V-based "supercomputer cluster-on-a-chip" accelerator for AI, HPC, and graph-analytics datacenter workloads.
AI tierAI-nativeWould not exist without AI.
AI layerBuilds AISells AI itself: models, chips, tools, infrastructure.
In Austin★ Headquartered hereSince 2020
Why: Fabless semiconductor startup whose sole product, the RISC-V-based Thunderbird chip, is an accelerator built specifically to run AI/HPC workloads faster than commodity CPUs/GPUs — it sells AI compute infrastructure itself (builds layer, AI-native business).
Austin office
- ★ HQBuilding 15301 Southwest Parkway, Building 1, Suite 100, Austin, TX 78735Opened 2020