[Asia Economy Reporter Hyunseok Yoo] AD Chips, a semiconductor design specialist company, is developing a semiconductor design platform utilizing open source technology that is gaining attention in the semiconductor industry.
AD Chips announced on the 3rd that it is developing a new semiconductor design platform based on the open source design technology ‘RISC-V’.
‘RISC-V’ is a semiconductor design technology that began development in 2010 at the University of California, Berkeley. Since the official launch of the ‘RISC-V’ Association in 2016, over 250 companies including Samsung Electronics, SK Hynix, Google, Microsoft, Qualcomm, and Huawei have registered as members.
A company official stated, “We are developing a new semiconductor design platform called the ‘RISC-V platform’ that integrates the ‘RISC-V’ core with various semiconductor design IPs built over the past 25 years, enabling shorter development periods and cost reduction.”
In particular, ‘RISC-V’ technology is seen as a rival to ARM-based semiconductor technology, which holds a 90% market share in the smartphone AP sector. ‘RISC-V’ offers advantages such as reducing area by 30-50% and power consumption by 60% compared to ARM, leading semiconductor design companies to move away from the ARM ecosystem and pursue independent development through ‘RISC-V’.
AD Chips’ strategy is to promptly develop a semiconductor design platform based on ‘RISC-V’ technology to proactively respond to the changing semiconductor design field.
A company official said, “Once the semiconductor design platform under development is established, it is expected that semiconductor design can be carried out easily and quickly in the ‘RISC-V’ environment,” adding, “We will accelerate development to complete the platform by next year and provide it to semiconductor design companies.”
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