Quintauris is advancing the adoption of RISC-V globally by enabling
next-generation hardware development
Quintauris was founded as a single source to enable compatible RISC-V-based products, provide reference architectures, and help establish solutions to be widely used across various industries.
Our shareholders are leading industry players Robert Bosch GmbH, Infineon Technologies AG, Nordic Semiconductor ASA, NXP® Semiconductors, and Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.
We absolutely believe in the power of collaboration, and look forward to engaging with the RISC-V ecosystem to speed development and enhance resilience.
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Alexander Kocher
CEO
Quintauris CEO Alexander Kocher most recently served as President and CEO of Elektrobit, a global supplier of embedded and connected software products for the automotive industry.
Prior to joining Elektrobit in 2011, Kocher was vice president and general manager of Wind River's automotive business unit. Alexander has enjoyed a long and varied career, holding multiple senior management and engineering roles in prestigious companies such as Continental, Siemens and Infineon. Alexander holds a master’s degree in electronic engineering.
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Semiconductor industry players Bosch, Infineon, Nordic Semiconductor, NXP® Semiconductors, and Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., have come together to jointly invest in a company aimed at advancing the adoption of RISC-V globally by enabling next-generation hardware development.
Formed in Germany, this company will aim to accelerate the commercialization of future products based on the open-source RISC-V architecture. The company will be a single source to enable compatible RISC-V based products, provide reference architectures, and help establish solutions widely used in the industry. Initial application focus will be automotive, but with an eventual expansion to include mobile and IoT.
At its core, RISC-V encourages innovation, allowing any company to develop cutting-edge, customized hardware based on an open-source instruction set. Further adoption of the RISC-V technology will promote even more diversity in the electronics industry – reducing the barriers to entry for smaller and emergent firms and enabling increased scalability for established companies. -
This EU-based company will aim to accelerate the commercialization of future products based on the open-source RISC-V architecture. The company will be a single source to enable compatible RISC-V based products, provide reference architectures, and help establish industry standards. Initial application focus will be automotive, but with an eventual expansion to include mobile and IoT.
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RISC-V is an open-source chip architecture based on “Reduced Instruction Set Computer” (RISC) principles, originally developed by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley in 2010. The current RISC-V landscape is fragmented with available IP either not hardened for industrial use or only offered by suppliers based in North America or Asia. For more information on RISC-V, please visit: https://riscv.org/about/.
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Quintauris will initially focus on the advancement of automotive solutions, but will eventually expand to include mobile and IoT.
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Quintauris calls on industry associations, leaders, and governments, to support this initiative, which will increase the resilience of the broader semiconductor ecosystem.
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The RISC-V Software Ecosystem (RISE) project is a new collaborative effort that brings together global industry leaders committed to accelerating the availability of software for high-performance and power-efficient RISC-V cores running high level operating systems for a variety of market segments, including mobile, consumer electronics, datacenter, and automotive.
The mission of this company is to advance the adoption of RISC-V globally by enabling next-generation hardware development.