Ubitium has also announced a $3.7 million in seed funding round, co-led by Runa Capital, Inflection, and KBC Focus Fund, that will be used to develop the first prototypes and prepare initial development kits for customers, with the first chips planned for 2026.
"The $500 billion processor industry is built on restrictive boundaries between computing tasks," said Hyun Shin Cho, CEO of Ubitium. "We're erasing those boundaries. Our Universal Processor does it all - CPU, GPU, DSP, FPGA - in one chip, one architecture. This isn't an incremental improvement. It is a paradigm shift. This is the processor architecture the AI era demands."
“For too long, we’ve accepted that making devices intelligent means making them complex. Multiple processors or processor cores, multiple development teams, endless integration challenges. Our Universal Processor delivers workload-agnostic and AI-enabling compute capabilities to edge devices with a single chip, at a fraction of the cost to develop and manufacture compared to today’s offerings.”
With the semiconductor market projected to exceed $700 billion by 2025, Ubitium's technology initially targets embedded systems and robotics. By simplifying system architectures and reducing costs, Ubitium's processor is intended to make advanced computing capabilities accessible across all industries without requiring specialised hardware for each application - enabling advanced AI at no additional cost.
Commenting Dmitry Galperin, a Berlin-based General Partner at Runa Capital, said that they had been impressed by the unique approach to processor microarchitecture, which is now able to adapt to any type of workload - from simple control logic to massive parallel data flow processing.
Rudi Severijns, Investment Director at KBC Focus Fund said, "What Ubitium brings will provide a real breakthrough to develop and launch any new product with embedded electronics. Their approach will reduce the cost as well as the complexity, allowing a much faster time-to-market. What previously required multiple teams to collaborate on hardware and software design now becomes purely a software project.”
Ubitium plans to develop a complete portfolio of chips that vary in array size but share the same microarchitecture and software stack - enabling solutions from small, embedded devices to high-performance computing systems.
Described as a super-scalable approach it allows customers to scale their applications without changing their development process, while the workload-agnostic design ensures the processor can adapt to handle any computing task without specialised hardware modifications.
The company's goal is to establish its universal processor as the new standard that finally breaks down the cost and complexity barriers that have limited the deployment of advanced computing and AI capabilities across industries.
"We envision a future where every device operates autonomously, making intelligent decisions in real time and transforming the way we interact with technology," added Hyun Shin Cho.
Ubitium was founded by semiconductor veterans CTO Martin Vorbach, who holds over 200 patents, CEO Hyun Shin Cho and Chairman Peter Weber, a veteran of Intel, Texas Instruments, and Dialog Semiconductor.
