British chipmaker Fractile will invest £100 million over the next three years to expand its artificial intelligence hardware operations in the UK, opening a new engineering facility in Bristol as it ramps up production of next-generation AI systems.
The London-headquartered semiconductor firm said the investment, worth approximately $136 million, will strengthen its domestic engineering capabilities and accelerate development of advanced chips designed to run increasingly complex AI models faster than existing hardware.
Central to the expansion is a new hardware engineering site in Bristol, in western England. The facility will assemble Fractile’s proprietary chips into complete AI systems and include a dedicated testing laboratory for software tailored to emerging compute technologies.
The move is expected to significantly increase the company’s production capacity while enhancing research and development efforts.
The UK government welcomed the announcement, describing it as a vote of confidence in Britain’s technology sector, which it says is now valued at more than £1 trillion. Officials view semiconductor innovation and AI infrastructure as strategically important industries amid intensifying global competition.
AI Minister Kanishka Narayan, who is due to formally announce the investment at a London event, said Fractile’s plans demonstrate how British firms can play a leading role in advanced computing. He added that expanding domestic chip production strengthens the UK’s position in the rapidly evolving AI landscape.
The investment comes at a time of surging demand for AI processing power worldwide, as businesses and governments race to deploy faster, more efficient systems capable of supporting next-generation machine learning models.
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