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British AI chip startup raises $125m to tackle data centre power crunch

The oversubscribed round will fund manufacturing scale-up and new 128- and 256-port optical switches for AI data centres, the company said.

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Oxford-based chip startup Salience Labs has raised $125m (£94m) from investors including, AMD and Intel, as the race to build AI data centres has put growing pressure on electricity supplies. The funding round, led by Bullhound Capital, is set to help the British firm scale production of its photonic chips, which use light rather than [...]

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Salience Labs earned $125 million to expand the manufacturing of its optical switches for AI data centers and open a second office on the West Coast. The round brings together technological investors and British capital, but the company has not yet announced customers or dates for its upcoming models.

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City AM broke the news in London, United Kingdom on Monday, October 12, 2026.
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