High-performance computing chip designer Clearspeed more than tripled its turnover last year to £1.9m after big deals with Sun Microsystems and the Tokyo Institute of Technology.
Last month the Bristol-based firm also launched a board for the financial services industry with IBM and AMD, its first commercial volume product, and the company said it expects this to help smooth the unpredictable revenues from the sales to supercomputer makers in 2007.
But this is not necessarily a move to closer links with AMD and its Hypertransport (HT) high speed communication technology, CEO Tom Beese told
EW.
“Our goal is to be completely neutral,” he said. “Today if we look across all the systems there are very few Hypertransport slots.
So we have to be cautious about which system vendors, what time they are going to adopt it and when that will enable us to exploit it. And unless they are specifically developed HT co-processor sockets rather than expansion slots, HT adds very little value.”
“We are confident that PCIExpress is the dominant standard for both AMD and Intel and should be our focus,” he added.
After a good year, it still has over £11m in the bank.
The company’s full year results are due in March.