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Posted on February 10, 2026
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Fractile plans a £100M investment to boost AI chip production in the UK, including a new Bristol facility and expanded engineering team.
LONDON, Feb 10 (Reuters) - Britain said on Tuesday that homegrown chipmaker Fractile will invest 100 million pounds ($136.43 million) in its UK operations over the next three years, including a new hardware engineering facility to support the scale-up of its AI chip production.
The investment from Fractile, a London-based computer chipmaker, will fund a larger UK-based engineering team and support work on next-generation systems designed to run advanced artificial intelligence models faster than current hardware, the British government said.
The new site, in the western English city of Bristol, will assemble Fractile's chips into full AI systems and host a testing lab for software built for future compute technologies.
Britain said Fractile's decision to scale in the country reflects confidence in its tech sector, which the government says is now valued at more than 1 trillion pounds.
AI Minister Kanishka Narayan, who is expected to announce the investment at an event in London, said Fractile's plans showed how British companies could strengthen the country's position in advanced computing.
($1 = 0.7330 pounds)
(Reporting by Sam Tabahriti, editing by William James)
Artificial intelligence (AI) refers to the simulation of human intelligence in machines programmed to think and learn like humans. AI can perform tasks such as problem-solving, understanding language, and recognizing patterns.
An investment is the allocation of resources, usually money, to generate income or profit. Investments can take various forms, including stocks, bonds, real estate, and business ventures.
A chipmaker is a company that designs and manufactures semiconductor chips used in electronic devices. These chips are essential components in computers, smartphones, and other technology.
An engineering team is a group of professionals with expertise in engineering disciplines who work together to design, develop, and improve products or systems.
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