AheadComputing Inc. is a Portland, Oregon fabless semiconductor startup founded in 2024 by former Intel CPU architects — CEO Debbie Marr, Jonathon Pearce, Mark Dechene and Srikanth Srinivasan — that designs and licenses high-performance 64-bit RISC-V application processor cores. The company markets a clean-slate, massive out-of-order "big core" architecture aimed at eliminating per-core CPU bottlenecks for AI, cloud, client, mobile and edge workloads, and has raised roughly $53M across a $21.5M seed and a $30M Seed2 round co-led by Eclipse, Toyota Ventures and Cambium. Its product is silicon IP licensed to chip designers rather than software, so it publishes no public API, developer portal, SDK or machine-readable contract.
AheadComputing is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Semiconductors, RISC-V, CPU, and Processors.
AheadComputing’s developer surface includes engineering blog, product news, and 6 more developer resources.
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aid: aheadcomputing
name: AheadComputing
description: AheadComputing Inc. is a Portland, Oregon fabless semiconductor startup founded in 2024 by former Intel CPU architects
— CEO Debbie Marr, Jonathon Pearce, Mark Dechene and Srikanth Srinivasan — that designs and licenses high-performance 64-bit
RISC-V application processor cores. The company markets a clean-slate, massive out-of-order "big core" architecture aimed
at eliminating per-core CPU bottlenecks for AI, cloud, client, mobile and edge workloads, and has raised roughly $53M across
a $21.5M seed and a $30M Seed2 round co-led by Eclipse, Toyota Ventures and Cambium. Its product is silicon IP licensed
to chip designers rather than software, so it publishes no public API, developer portal, SDK or machine-readable contract.
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open_source: false
commercial: false
callable_host: false
label: Delivery model not determined — needs a product licence on record
confidence: low
source:
- none
generated: '2026-08-28'
method: derived
accessModel:
pricing: unknown
onboarding: unknown
trial: false
try_now: false
public: false
label: Unknown
confidence: low
source:
- security
generated: '2026-09-02'
method: derived
image: https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/6909ebc0bb1e997f5360fd6a/695be60fcabc7b3e07a37ab0_webflow_webclip.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/aheadcomputing/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
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x-source: harvest:secondary-market
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: harvest
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-08-06'
modified: '2026-08-06'
tags:
- Company
- Semiconductors
- RISC-V
- CPU
- Processors
- Silicon IP
- Hardware
- AI Infrastructure
- Data-Center
tags_raw:
- Company
- Semiconductors
- RISC-V
- CPU
- Processors
- Silicon IP
- Hardware
- AI Infrastructure
- Data Center
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
url: security/aheadcomputing-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
url: https://www.aheadcomputing.com/
- type: Blog
url: https://www.aheadcomputing.com/blog
- type: News
url: https://www.aheadcomputing.com/news
- type: PrivacyPolicy
url: https://www.aheadcomputing.com/privacy-policy
- type: Contact
url: https://www.aheadcomputing.com/contact
- type: Careers
url: https://www.aheadcomputing.com/careers
- type: SecondaryMarket
url: https://forgeglobal.com/aheadcomputing_stock/
x-enrichment:
date: '2026-08-06'
status: minimal
artifacts_added: 1
pass: local-v1
x-coverage:
state: none
reason: not-a-software-company
detail: AheadComputing licenses 64-bit RISC-V CPU core designs (silicon IP) to chip makers rather than shipping software,
and its entire web presence is a seven-page Webflow marketing site — home, markets, team, careers, blog, news, contact
— with no developer, docs, or API section, and no docs./api./developer. subdomain resolving in DNS at all.
evidence:
- url: https://www.aheadcomputing.com/
status: 200
- url: https://www.aheadcomputing.com/openapi.json
status: 404
- url: https://www.aheadcomputing.com/.well-known/agent-card.json
status: 404
- url: https://www.aheadcomputing.com/.well-known/security.txt
status: 404
- url: https://www.aheadcomputing.com/docs
status: 404
checked: '2026-08-06'
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