Startup Led by Ex-Nvidia GPU Architect Designs Y10 Chip to Close Robot Control Loops in 1 ms

A chip startup founded in 2025 by former Nvidia GPU architect Xu Feixiang is designing the Y10 processor for physical AI, targeting a full perception, inference and action loop under one millisecond. The company's simulations show five times the performance at 80% lower cost versus x86 plus Orin setups; an FPGA version is planned for the end of the year.

• Y10 is a general-purpose processor on a custom SomaArch instruction set, not a fixed-function ASIC
• Simulations claim 5x performance and 80% lower cost versus x86 + Orin
• An FPGA version of the platform is planned for the end of 2026 for customer testing
• First target is industrial robot arms rather than humanoids