Bolt Graphics

Bolt Graphics is a semiconductor startup founded in 2020 and based in Sunnyvale, California. It designs graphics processors intended to be the fastest and most efficient available, with a focus on accelerating rendering and simulation workloads. The company's work spans graphics processor design, semiconductor design and hardware-accelerated ray tracing, and targets deployment in data centres and cloud environments.

Its product, Zeus, is a graphics processor built from the ground up for users in the creative, gaming and research industries, as well as visual effects and film. The stated performance goal is renders and simulations that run orders of magnitude faster while consuming dramatically less power. The company's founder brings a decade of experience designing data centres and cloud environments; work on ray tracing solutions began in 2014.

Bolt Graphics describes its engineering culture as first-principles-led, revolving around the questions of why a given approach is used and how it could be improved. The stated mission is to lower the barrier to entry for creating and consuming content, and to make the production of immersive experiences accessible more widely.