Forming strong, strategic relationships and sharing our ideas with industry is fundamental to our success. Over the past decade, CEF has forged close relationships with >100 global companies across our programmes. We are always open to new and thought-provoking collaborations where a combination of expertise may be mutually beneficial and inspire new innovations in products and applications. Developing Intellectual PropertyOur group maintains a significant IP portfolio via Edinburgh Innovations (EI), the University of Edinburgh’s commercialisation arm. We work closely with our colleagues in EI, who guide us on how best to create impact and commercialise our research, bearing in mind the type and stage of our technologies, the market demand, and our ambitions.edinburgh-innovations.ed.ac.uk EVA: The Edinburgh Venture Builder in AI HardwareTo accelerate the commercialisation of our research in CEF in an efficient, scalable and targeted manner, we have established the world’s first Venture builder for sustainable AI Hardware. EVA drives success through a unique combination of a distinctive venture builder model applied to a portfolio of novel semiconductor technologies. This approach facilitates the creation of multiple assets capable of driving a step-change in AI compute. EVA runs several programmes in parallel to ensure the best technologies are backed and can thrive. Our unique innovation model supports a fail-fast/fail-forward approach through structured programmes combining hands-on engineering effort with commercialisation support. One such technology is the work undertaken in project ATLAS. This project rethinks how graph data are processed in hardware, by introducing a memory fabric that is naturally tailored to store graph-format data and accelerate bespoke graph processing operations.evatechnologies.ai | atlas-processing.com Array Control (ArC) instrumentsArC Instruments is a CEF startup that was developed while at the University of Southampton to deliver high performance testing platforms for characterising ‘en masse’ novel semiconductor technologies in a fast and automated fashion. Its products are contributing to technological advances at global electronics companies and >300 research institutes around the world. ArC Instruments continues to maintain a close, working relationship with the Centre for Electronics Frontiers now at the University of Edinburgh, through supporting and complementing research at the University and providing opportunities including internships and PhD placements.arc-instruments.co.uk This article was published on 2025-06-23
