XMOS is a fabless semiconductor company that develops audio products and multicore microcontrollers.

Company history

XMOS was founded in July 2005 by Ali Dixon, James Foster, Noel Hurley, David May, and Hitesh Mehta. It received seed funding from the University of Bristol enterprise fund, and Wyvern seed fund. The name XMOS is a loose reference to Inmos. Some concepts found in XMOS technology (such as channels and threads) are part of the Transputer legacy. In the autumn of 2006, XMOS secured funding from Amadeus Capital Partners, DFJ Esprit, and Foundation Capital. It also has strategic investors Robert Bosch Venture Capital GmbH, Huawei Technologies, and

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. In September 2017, XMOS secured $15M in an investment round lead by Infineon. In July 2017, XMOS acquired SETEM, a company that specialises in audio algorithms for source separation.

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