Quintauris is a
European joint company specialized in development of
RISC-V
RISC-V (pronounced "risk-five") is an open standard instruction set architecture (ISA) based on established reduced instruction set computer (RISC) principles. The project commenced in 2010 at the University of California, Berkeley. It transfer ...
based technologies. Currently located in
Germany
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, the company aims to support and standardize RISC-V commercially.
History
On August 4, 2023, 5
semiconductor companies Robert Bosch GmbH, Infineon Technologies AG, Nordic Semiconductor, NXP Semiconductors, and Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. have announced the foundation of a joint company aimed at advancing the adoption of RISC-V as an
ISA, commercializing it and setting industry standards. The company has been formally established and dubbed ''Quintauris'' on 22 December of the same year. On 29 August 2024,
STMicroelectronics
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announced they join Quintauris as the sixth
shareholder
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.
See also
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European Processor Initiative
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SiFive
SiFive, Inc. is an United States, American Fabless manufacturing, fabless semiconductor company and provider of commercial RISC-V processors and Integrated circuit, silicon chips based on the RISC-V instruction set architecture (ISA). Its product ...
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lowRISC
lowRISC C.I.C. is a not-for-profit company headquartered in Cambridge, UK. It uses collaborative engineering to develop and maintain open source silicon designs and tools. lowRISC is active in RISC-V-related open source hardware and software d ...
References
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Open microprocessors
Open hardware organizations and companies
Semiconductor companies
Engineering companies of Europe