Fractile's $220 Million Inference Chip Bet: SRAM In Memory Compute, Anthropic's Early Interest, and the Birth of British AI Silicon - May 14, 2026

Fractile's $220 Million Inference Chip Bet: SRAM In Memory Compute, Anthropic's Early Interest, and the Birth of British AI Silicon - May 14, 2026 London startup Fractile closed a $220 million Series B led by Accel, Factorial Funds, and Peter Thiel's Founders Fund to build SRAM based in memory compute inference chips that claim 25x faster frontier model inference at one tenth the cost. With Anthropic reportedly in early procurement talks and the UK AI minister hailing the round as a vote of ...