Gerard Williams, known as the father of Apple's M1 chip, recently announced the establishment of NUVACORE in collaboration with former Qualcomm engineers John Bruno and Ram Srinivasan. The three founders previously served as core chip architects at Apple and later co-founded Nuvia. After Nuvia was acquired by Qualcomm for $1.4 billion in 2021, all three joined Qualcomm. In February of this year, Williams left Qualcomm and, several months later, embarked on a new venture with his long-time collaborators. On NUVACORE's official website, the new architecture is positioned as 'built for ultimate performance,' aiming to redefine the rules of silicon chips. The company stated that it is designing a general-purpose CPU core from scratch for data centers and AI infrastructure, with the goal of maximizing performance and area efficiency. This high-throughput core will optimize long-running, compute-intensive tasks, including advanced AI systems and agent computing. Currently, NUVACORE has not disclosed which instruction set architecture it will adopt, with Arm being considered one of the most likely options. Williams worked at Arm for 12 years, leading key architectures such as Cortex-A8 and Cortex-A15. After joining Apple, he served as the chief architect for Apple's custom chips, including the A12X to A17, and holds over 60 Apple patents. John Bruno previously served as Qualcomm's Director of System Architecture, while Ram Srinivasan is a senior expert in chip verification. NUVACORE has secured seed funding led by Sequoia Capital and plans to initiate Series A funding within the next few months, with offices set to open in Silicon Valley, Austin, and Markham, Canada.