Universal processor developed by Ubitium

Ubitium, a five month-old Dusseldorf startup, has developed a universal RISC-V processor that handles all computing workloads on a single, monolithic IC.

Ubitium has just completed a $3.7 million in seed funding round, co-led by Runa Capital, Inflection, and KBC Focus Fund.

The investment will be used to develop the first prototypes of the processor and prepare initial development kits for customers, with the first chips planned for 2026.

CTO Martin Vorbach (pictured left) holds over 200 semiconductor patents licensed by major U.S. chip companies and spent 15 years developing this technology.

Drawing from his pioneering work in reconfigurable computing, he created a workload-agnostic microarchitecture that allows the same transistors to be reused for different processing tasks—eliminating the need for multiple specialised cores and enabling AI at no additional cost.

Vorbach met CEO Hyun Shin Cho (pictured right) at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). After two decades of gaining insights across various industrial sectors, Cho reunited with Vorbach to commercialise the technology.

Completing the team is Chairman Peter Weber, a veteran of Intel, Texas Instruments, and Dialog Semiconductor, who brings extensive industry expertise.

“The $500 billion processor industry is built on restrictive boundaries between computing tasks,” says Cho, “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—today, that changes. 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.

Ubitium’s technology initially targets embedded systems and robotics.

By simplifying system architectures and reducing costs, Ubitium’s processor makes advanced computing capabilities accessible across all industries without requiring specialised hardware for each application—enabling advanced AI at no additional cost.