Andes Technology Is the First RISC-V Vendor to Accomplish ISO 26262 Functional Safety ASIL D Development Process Certification with SGS-TÜV Saar

The development and certification of embedded automotive safety systems will be
facilitated by Andes functional safety certified processors

HSINCHU, TAIWAN – February 15, 2022 – Andes Technology, a leading supplier of high efficiency, low-power 32/64-bit RISC-V processor cores and Founding Premier member of RISC-V International, today announced it has been certified to be compliant to the requirements of ISO 26262 standards for the development of automotive functional safety processor cores. SGS-TÜV Saar GmbH, as a functional safety certification body, had independently assessed and declared that Andes Technology’s systematic capability is up to the highest certification level of Automotive Safety Integrity Level (ASIL) D on the standards including all applicable parts 2, 4, 5, 6, 8 and 9 of ISO 26262. According to the official records, Andes is the first RISC-V processor IP vendor to get process certifications for both Hardware (ISO 26262-5) and Software (ISO 26262-6) in December 2020.

ISO 26262 is a series of standards to mitigate the risks of possible safety hazards. As today’s automobile electrical and electronic (E/E) systems are getting evermore complex, developers in the automobile supply chain are obligated to provide evidence to customers down the stream that their products are being addressed on all aspects in related to safety. Since ISO 26262 provides a common ground for E/E companies worldwide to meet that goal, by certifying ISO 26262 compliant, Andes demonstrates to the industry that it is committed to support automobile professionals in developing safety-related product lines.

“Andes Technology is among the best-in-class companies that SGS-TÜV Saar ever certified for ISO 26262,” said Jack Kuo, Director of Connectivity and Products Division at SGS Taiwan. “The basis of functional safety is built upon the fundamental activities such as specification, design, implementation, integration, verification and validation. Even before ISO 26262 certification, Andes already has a solid quality system for these development processes. On top of that, their experienced safety professionals had put in great efforts to adopt the ISO 26262, which is a key element of the scientific and technological state of the art in vehicle industry. These are the keys why we are able to conclude our independent assessments and certifications smoothly right within the planned schedule, which is quite an extraordinary experience for both of us.”

“Andes Technology has seventeen-year focus on developing a series of robust AndesCore™ processors running in billions of chips. We have hundreds of licensees, whose applications range from industrial MCU to enterprise storage, 5G stations and datacenter infrastructure.” said Dr. Charlie Su, President and CTO of Andes Technology. “As electronic components in road vehicles grow fast in number and complexity, their safety, availability and robustness are crucial to welfare of human being and green environment. The trend is a great opportunity and responsibility for us, and we take it very seriously. Instead of selectively picking partial standard clauses and self-claiming readiness, Andes chooses to work together with the industry leader SGS-TÜV Saar to ensure our development process is comprehensively compliant to all the applicable ISO 26262 functional safety standards. This shows our commitment to comply with the stringent and challenging requirements in automobile electrical and electronic supply chain.”

“SGS-TÜV Saar is accredited by the established German accreditation body DAkkS for the certification services it provides. We conducted numerous thorough reviews and found Andes Technology has internalized and followed the requirements for systematic functional safety developments. The governing processes provide adequate checks and balance; it is evident to us they are compliant to ISO 26262 series of standards and meets the criteria for ASIL D.” said Wolfgang Ruf, Functional Safety Product Manager Semiconductors of SGS-TÜV Saar GmbH. “We congratulate Andes Technology and welcome Andes to introduce its RISC-V CPU IP series to the automobile industry after completing its assessment and certification.”

Andes Technology’s first functional safety IP is under development and has been licensed by several customers in the early access program to develop automobile grade system-on-chip (SoCs) for various in-vehicle applications. This functional safety enabled solution is expected to be available for general licensing by the end of first quarter this year.

About SGS
SGS is the world’s leading inspection, verification, testing and certification company. We are recognized as the global benchmark for quality and integrity. With more than 96,000 employees, we operate a network of more than 2,600 offices and laboratories around the world. For more information, please visit https://www.sgs.com.tw/en/

About Andes Technology
Seventeen years in business and a Founding Premier member of RISC-V International, Andes (TWSE: 6533; SIN: US03420C2089; ISIN: US03420C1099), is a leading supplier of high-performance/low-power 32/64-bit embedded processor IP solutions, and the driving force in taking RISC-V mainstream. Andes’ fifth-generation AndeStar™ architecture adopted the RISC-V as the base. Its V5 RISC-V CPU families range from tiny 32-bit cores to advanced 64-bit cores with DSP, FPU, Vector, Linux, superscalar, and/or multicore capabilities. The annual volume of Andes-Embedded SoCs has exceeded 3 billion since 2021 and continues to rise. The cumulative volume of Andes-Embedded™ SoCs has reached 10 billion by the end of 2021. For more information, please visit https://www.andestech.com.

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Andes Technology Corp. Announces Joining the Intel Foundry Service Accelerator – IP Alliance Program

Andes Partners with IFS to Provide Leading Edge RISC-V CPU IP
To SoC Designers Using Intel’s State-of-the-Art Foundry Services

SAN JOSE, CA – February 7, 2022– Andes Technology Corporation (TWSE: 6533; SIN: US03420C2089; ISIN: US03420C1099), a leading supplier of high efficiency, low-power 32/64-bit RISC-V processor cores and Founding Premier member of RISC-V International, today announce that Andes has joined the IP Alliance of Intel Foundry Services (IFS) Accelerator program. Andes provides comprehensive solution of RISC-V CPU IP cores from entry level to high-end products to meet application requirements from edge to cloud, including its highly demanded and recently upgraded RISC-V Superscalar Multicore A(X)45MP and Vector Processor NX27V. Designers building Andes-embedded RISC-V SoCs will have access to Intel Foundry Services’ leading-edge technology to provide increased, power-efficient performance.

“RISC-V is the 21st Century Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) created from a clean slate and freed from the hamstring of supporting a half century of backward compatibility,” said Frankwell Lin, CEO of Andes Technology Corp. “By providing a world-class foundry for this revolutionary new ISA, Intel Foundry Services will enable the leading edge silicon for 5G, ADAS, AI, AR/VR, data center, semiconductor storage, and HPC built around the RISC-V architecture. We are excited to be one of the lead IP partners in IFS Accelerator – IP Alliance program. Intel’s large scale foundry provides committed capacity for IFS customers which ensures that SoC designs based on Andes RISC-V processor cores will achieve the production ramp and volume successfully.”

“We are pleased to announce the IFS Ecosystem Alliance as a major step forward for Intel’s foundry ambitions,” said Randhir Thakur, President, Intel Foundry Services. “We are delighted to have Andes join the alliance. We look forward to partnering with Andes to extend their leadership IP with IFS for the benefit of our mutual global customers.”

The total SoC shipment of Andes customers surpassed the milestone of 10 billion in 2021. The SoCs cover a wide range of embedded electronics products such as 5G, automotive control, deep learning, AIoT, datacenters, image processing, networking, and storage. After joining IFS Accelerator – IP Alliance, Andes can support joint customers from SoC design to manufacturing seamlessly. The cooperation of two leading suppliers will strengthen both RISC-V and IFS ecosystems and accelerate customer’s time-to-market.

About Andes Technology
Sixteen years in business and a Founding Premier member of RISC-V International, Andes is publicly listed company and a leading supplier of high-performance/low-power 32/64-bit embedded processor IP solutions, and the driving force in taking RISC-V mainstream. Andes’ fifth-generation AndeStar™ architecture adopted the RISC-V as the base. Its V5 RISC-V CPU families range from tiny 32-bit cores to advanced 64-bit cores with DSP, FPU, Vector, Linux, superscalar, and/or multicore capabilities. The annual volume of Andes-Embedded SoCs has exceeded 3 billion in 2021 and continues to rise. By the end of 2021, the cumulative volume of Andes-Embedded™ SoCs has surpassed 10 billion. For more information,visit https://www.andestech.com. Follow Andes on LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube! 

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Andes Technology Corp. and Intel Foundry Services Bring RISC-V Solutions to Build an Open Ecosystem

Andes Joins IFS IP Alliance Program to Offer Industry Leading,
Optimized Open RISC-V IP with Integrated Software Solution

SAN JOSE, CA – Feb. 7, 2022– Andes Technology Corporation (TWSE: 6533; SIN: US03420C2089; ISIN: US03420C1099), a leading supplier of high efficiency, low-power 32/64-bit RISC-V processor cores and Founding Premier member of RISC-V International, today announced that it has joined Intel Foundry Services’ effort to help build out its RISC-V intensive part of $1B Foundry Innovation Ecosystem. Andes Technology offers a wide range of RISC-V processors and integrated hardware/software development environments used to design diversified SoCs from low-power MCUs to innovative datacenter servers. With the launch of Intel Foundry Service Accelerator – IP Alliance Program and Intel’s decision to make a significant investment in the RISC-V ecosystem for open source software development, this partnership will bring significant competitiveness to customers that will leverage IFS to manufacture their RISC-V systems on chip.

Today, Andes’ complete AndeStar™ V5 RISC-V CPU IP families from the single-issue 25-series and 27-series to the superscalar 45-series are all available for IFS customers with hardware evaluation kit and software solution for easy SoC development and integration. Going forward, Andes’ RISC-V CPU IP families will support new IFS advanced processes when available.

“Active collaboration is the key to strengthen an ecosystem. We welcome Intel’s active participation to develop the RISC-V software ecosystem. We will provide our RISC-V processor platform and integrated software solution, on top of which Intel can base their development.” said Charlie Su, President and CTO of Andes Technology Corp. “The total SoC shipments of Andes customers have surpassed the milestone of 10 billion in 2021, with 3 billion in 2021 alone, while RISC-V based products have shown their high growth rate. We are happy to learn Intel Foundry Services will be actively involved in RISC-V ecosystem and manufacture RISC-V based chips. It will help our customers to deliver their innovated SoCs, especially in the crunch time of the foundry capacities. Andes and IFS become RISC-V ecosystem partners, and Andes is committed to supporting IFS’ customers with Andes RISC-V products and solutions as well.”

“We are thrilled to welcome Andes Technology Corp. into the Intel Foundry Service Accelerator IP Alliance program,” said Bob Brennan, VP and General Manager, Customer Solutions Engineering, Intel Foundry Services. “Designers targeting the Intel state of the art advanced process foundry can be assured of access to a robust, comprehensive design ecosystem, process technologies, advanced packaging technologies, and manufacturing capability. With this announcement, Intel Foundry Services is well positioned to offer IP optimized for all three of the industry’s leading ISAs: x86, Arm and RISC-V. With our ecosystem partners, Intel Foundry Services will bring an immense production capacity to greatly ease the global chip shortage that JPMorgan Chase predicts will drag into 2022. Certainly RISC-V based chips are welcome and supported.”

More and more major semiconductor companies worldwide adopt the RISC-V ISA and join the RISC-V Ecosystem. It in turn helps advance the RISC-V ISA to meet the fast pace of new technology developments. As a key player in the RISC-V ecosystem, Andes continues to invest in R&D talents to develop the next-generation RISC-V processors for the emerging applications such as 5G, ADAS, AI/machine learning, AR /VR, blockchain, cloud computing, data center server and HPC, IoT, storage, security, and wireless devices. The cooperation and commitment of two leading vendors will strengthen both RISC-V and IFS ecosystems and accelerate customer’s time-to-market.

About Andes Technology
Sixteen years in business and a Founding Premier member of RISC-V International, Andes is publicly-listed company (TWSE: 6533; SIN: US03420C2089; ISIN: US03420C1099) and a leading supplier of high-performance/low-power 32/64-bit embedded processor IP solutions, and the driving force in taking RISC-V mainstream. Andes’ fifth-generation AndeStar™ architecture adopted the RISC-V as the base. Its V5 RISC-V CPU families range from tiny 32-bit cores to advanced 64-bit cores with DSP, FPU, Vector, Linux, superscalar, and/or multicore capabilities. The annual volume of Andes-Embedded SoCs has exceeded 3 billion in 2021 and continues to rise. By the end of 2021, the cumulative volume of Andes-Embedded™ SoCs has surpassed 10 billion. For more information, please visit https://www.andestech.com. Follow Andes on LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube! 

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Looking Back on 2021: Strong Growth Momentum of RISC-V Market

As more and more international technology companies are embracing RISC-V and expanding their market and applications, Andes is determined to continue to drive the RISC-V momentum as the leading pure play processor IP vendor. By leveraging years of extensive experience helping customers achieve mass production of diversified products, Andes will support even more RISC-V SoC design teams to introduce innovative products. Looking ahead to 2022, Andes will recruit more R&D talents around the world. Based on the solid foundation of product portfolio, Andes will extend it to cover more high-value and high-end products and address the demand for high-performance RISC-V computing solutions and grow along with the booming market. Here, let’s go over the milestones Andes achieved in 2021.

New Milestones

  • Andes achieved record high annual revenue of NT$819 million in 2021, which represents 41 percent year-over-year growth.
  • The monthly revenue of December hit record high of NT$137 million.
  • Annual shipment of SoCs embedded with Andes CPU cores reached 3 billion in 2021 which represents over 50 percent year-over-year growth. Since inception, the cumulative shipments surpassed a remarkable record of 10 billion.
  • As of 2021, the cumulative number of IP license contracts exceeded 370. Design wins included many leading companies, such as MediaTek, Renesas, SK Telecom, EdgeQ, HPMicro, Kneron and many others.
  • The applications of Andes’ licensees are diversified. The top five customer applications are AI, Touch Panel, Wireless/IoT, MCU and 5G in 2021.
  • Over 20,000 installations of AndeSight™ IDE.


Innovative Products

  • Andes RISC-V superscalar multicore A(X)45MP and vector Processor NX27V upgraded their spec and performance.
  • Andes released AndeSight™ IDE v5.0: a comprehensive software solution to accelerate RISC-V AI and IoT developments.
  • Andes launched AndesBoardFarm to enable SoC designers to explore and evaluate Andes’ RISC-V processors in online FPGA board collection.
  • COPILOT (Custom-OPtimized Instruction deveLOpment Tools™) v5.4 was upgraded with additional Streaming Port feature.

 

Strategic Partnership

  • More than 500 ecosystem partners. 
  • Ashling’s RiscFree™ Toolchain extended to support the broad range of Andes RISC-V CPU IPs. 
  • Andes partnered with Codeplay Software to achieve software first SoC design for AI-based applications using RISC-V vector processors.
  • Andes and Cyberon collaborated to provide edge-computing voice recognition solution on DSP-capable RISC-V processors.
  • IAR Systems extended development tools performance capabilities for Andes RISC-V cores.
  • Andes partnered with PUFsecurity to integrate crypto coprocessor PUFiot into RISC-V AIoT security platform.
  • Andes and Rafael Microelectronics announced a strategic partnership to provide high power efficiency wireless IP solutions for IoT devices.
  • Andes collaborated with Rambus to offer secure solution for MCU and IoT applications.
  • Silex Insight and Andes Technology extended strategic partnership to deliver flexible and scalable root-of-trust security IP solution.

Global Presence

  • Andes issued its overseas Global Depositary Receipt (GDR) on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange, making Andes the only international public RISC-V CPU IP supplier. The funding allows Andes to boost investing in R&D and expanding its RISC-V product lines, especially high-end products. 
  • To seize the market of high-end multicore CPU IPs, Andes’ design centers in Taiwan, United States and Canada launched an expansion plan to recruit 200 R&D talents in the coming 3-5 years to develop the next-generation RISC-V products.
  • Jonah McLeod, Marketing Director of Andes Technology USA Corp., was elected as Chair of Marketing Committee of RISC-V International Association to lead its members around the world to promote RISC-V applications and expand ecosystem.

Awards & Accolades

  • Andes won “Mittelstand Award” held by Minister of Economic Affairs in Taiwan with its unique and highly competitive technology.
  • Andes won “Featured IoT Cybersecurity Chip Supplier” of 2021 EE Awards Asia hosted by EE Times and EDN. Its vector processor IP NX27V also won “Best EDA/IP of the Year” in the product category.
  • Frankwell Lin, Chairman and CEO, was awarded “Outstanding Manager Award” by Professional Management Association of Hsinchu, Taiwan.
  • Dr. Charlie Su, President and CTO, won RISC-V Technical Contributor Award in recognition of his contribution as Vice Chair of the RISC-V International Technical Steering Committee. 

Event Presence

  • At 2021 RISC-V Summit, Andes presented four talks covering the hottest RISC-V technology development and applications, including AndesCore™, IOPMP, TVM auto-scheduler and Zephyr RTOS.
  • Andes hosted nearly 40 RISC-V webinars and meetups, including RISC-V CON Hsinchu and RISC-V CON China, to share new market trends and the latest technologies with 3,000+ RISC-V enthusiasts all over the world.
  • Andes joined more than 50 major industry events and presented over 80 technical talks around the world to promote and reach customers despite the pandemic. The events included AI Hardware Summit, AIoT Taiwan, China Semiconductor Executive Summit, ChipEx, ChipExpo, Clientron Automotive Forum, Cloud & Fog Computing Ecosystem Forum, COMPUTEX, CTHPC, DATE, EE Awards Asia Ceremony, ELEXCON, Embedded World, GSA Asia-Pacific Executive Forum: 5G panel, GSA Silicon Leadership Summit, ICCAD, IP SoC Day Grenoble, Linley Fall Conference, Micro-Electronics Wearables Forum, RISC-V Forum (Security/ Developer Tools/ Embedded Technologies/ Vector & Machine Learning), RISC-V Meetup (Austin/Boston), RISC-V Summit, RISC-V Taipei Day, RISC-V Tokyo Day (Spring/Fall), RISC-V Week, RISC-V World Conference China, SemIsrael, TechTaipei, TSMC OIP Forum (NA/CN/EMEA), TSMC Technology Symposium (NA/TW/EMEA), VLSI-CAD, VLSI-DAT and many others.
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HPMicro Semiconductor Announces the Release of the HPM6000 Series of Microcontrollers with AndesCore™ Dual D45 Cores

Currently, the HPM6000 series is the world’s most powerful real-time RISC-V microcontrollers, with a clock speed up to 800 MHz, setting a new performance record by over 9000 CoreMark and 4500 DMIPS. Its Abundant Computing Power Accelerates Applications such as Industry 4.0, Smart Home Appliances, Edge Computing, and IoT.

Shanghai, China – December 02, 2021 – HPMicro Semiconductor, a leading manufacturer of high-performance embedded solutions, and Andes Technology, a leading supplier of 32/64-bit RISC-V embedded processors (TWSE: 6533; SIN: US03420C2089; ISIN: US03420C1099), today jointly released the HPM6000 series, the real-time RISC-V microcontrollers with the world’s strongest performance. The flagship product, HPM6750, adopts dual RISC-V AndesCore™ D45 cores, is equipped with innovative bus architecture, efficient level-1 caches and Local Memory, and has set a new performance record of over 9000 CoreMark and 4500 DMIPS, with a main frequency of up to 800 MHz. It provides robust computing power for edge computing and other applications.

The whole series of HPM6000 MCUs, including dual-core HPM6750, single-core HPM6450, and entry-level HPM6120, are all equipped with double-precision floating-point operations and powerful DSP extension instructions, built-in 2 MB SRAM, rich multimedia functions, motor control modules, communication interface and security encryption. The HPM6000 series can be used widely in popular applications such as industry 4.0, smart home appliances, payment terminal, edge computing, and IoT.

The D45 is a member of the AndesCore™ 45 series of Andes Technology RISC-V family. It has in-order 8-stage dual-issue superscalar architecture with optimized load and store pipeline design and advanced branch prediction. Additionally the D45 supports IEEE 754 single/double-precision floating-point unit (FPU) and RISC-V P-extension (DSP/SIMD) instruction. For instruction and data memory subsystem, all 45 series cores come with Local Memory as well as caches, which can greatly enhance the performance of SOCs with large memory such as the HPM6000 series. The D45 core is ideal for real-time applications that demand high performance and fast response time.

“HPMicro’s HPM6000 series are equipped with high-speed computing power and real-time control functions. They offer a more flexible and performance-efficient choice for the high-end MCU market.” Dr. Charlie Su, President and CTO of Andes Technology said, “With the D45 processor and the associated AndeSight™ IDE tools, customers can design software with better performance and streamlined program codes. HPMicro leads the industry by launching outstanding RISC-V embedded MCU security solutions. It shows the excellent R&D capabilities and efficient product development from the HPMicro team.”

“AndesCore™ D45 is the only RISC-V processor IP that can meet the requirements of HPMicro ultra-speed real-time computing. In certain use cases, D45 outperforms its competitors by 50%! In the meantime, Andes technical team’s excellent support is a big reason for us to tape out the HPM6000 series within 8 month of development and achieved one-silicon production. It was a very successful collaboration by our two teams,” said Jintao Zeng, CEO of HPMicro Semiconductor. “HPMicro provides developers with comprehensive developing tools, including HPM Studio, a free IDE based on the VS CODE framework, and a configuration tools with graphics interfaces. HPMicro will also release a BSD-licensed SDK, which includes low-level drivers, middleware and RTOS. All official software will be open-sourced. Our next step is to cooperate with more RISC-V community partners to build a better RISC-V ecosystem.”

Ordering/ Sample Information
HPM6750, HPM6450 series products samples and evaluation boards will be available by the end of December 2021. Please email info@hpmicro.com to order. For more information, please visit www.hpmicro.com

About HPMicro Semiconductor
HPMicro Semiconductor Co., Ltd. was located in Shanghai with wholly-owned subsidiaries in Tianjin and Wuhan. HPMicro’s mission is to build a high-performance general-purpose MCU portfolio that meets the modern-day demand for increased computing power. HPMicroers are a group of people who are very passionate about building world-class MCUs that challenge boundaries, break records, are easy to use, and have a good performance/price balance. HPMicro’s target market is industrial applications, including industrial automation, building control, robotic, motor control, digital power, smart appliance, and smart home.  

About Andes Technology
Sixteen years in business and a Founding Premier member of RISC-V International, Andes is a leading supplier of high-performance/low-power 32/64-bit embedded processor IP solutions, and the driving force in taking RISC-V mainstream. Andes’ fifth-generation AndeStar™ architecture adopted the RISC-V as the base. Its V5 RISC-V CPU families range from tiny 32-bit cores to advanced 64-bit cores with DSP, FPU, Vector, Linux, superscalar, and/or multicore capabilities. The annual volume of Andes-Embedded SoCs has exceeded 2 billion since 2020 and continues to rise. At the end of Q3 2021, the cumulative volume of Andes-Embedded™ SoCs has reached 9 billion. For more information, please visit https://www.andestech.com. Follow Andes on LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube! 

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Andes RISC-V Superscalar Multicore A(X)45MP and Vector Processor NX27V Upgrade Their Spec. and Performance

SAN JOSE, CA – December 02, 2021 – Andes Technology Corporation (TWSE: 6533; SIN: US03420C2089; ISIN: US03420C1099), a leading supplier of high efficiency, low-power 32/64-bit RISC-V processor cores and Founding Premier member of RISC-V International, today announces its superscalar multicore AndesCore 45MP family and the first commercial RISC-V vector processor IP, AndesCore NX27V, upgrade their spec and performance.

The 8-stage superscalar multiprocessor A(X)45MP was announced one year ago. It supports up to four cores and is equipped with DSP, single/double precision FPU (floating-point unit), and Linux-capable Memory Management Unit. Compared with the previous versions, the upgraded 32-bit A45MP and 64-bit AX45MP deliver up to 3x memory bandwidth while raising the floating-point performance by over 20% as measured by Whetstone benchmark. The latency for Level-1 Cache miss and Level-2 Cache hit is reduced by half and it leads to the outstanding 3.4 SPECint2006/GHz performance. In addition, the upgrade also includes RISC-V trace interface and debug spec.

The NX27V, supporting the RISC-V Vector Extension (RVV) spec v1.0-rc1, is upgraded with full configurations of 128-bit to 512-bit VLEN/SIMD/MEM. For vector data types, the NX27V now implements FP16 to FP64 and Int8 to Int64 as well as Andes-enhanced BF16 and Int4 for optimized AI data representations. The NX27V contains a scalar unit and an Out-of-Order Vector Processing Unit (VPU) with a dedicated interface called Streaming Port to efficiently exchange a large amount of data between NX27V registers and an external hardware engine. The NX27V comes with standard development tools and optimized RVV compute libraries. OpenCL™ with integrated LLVM compiler is available to enable parallel programming on heterogeneous architecture using multiple NX27V processors and a host processor such as the AX45MP. With the all 512-bit configuration, the NX27V can achieve over 98x speedup comparing with pure C program and 66% higher performance for MobileNet-v1 benchmark than the all 256-bit configuration. The NX27V targets the applications with large volumes of data such as AI, AR/VR, computer vision, cryptography, and multimedia.

“The 45-series families are welcomed by the market since introduced last year. They are used in diversified applications, ranging from highend MCU, video processing, WiFi 7, 5G base station, AI accelerators, to enterprise-grade storage devices. We are excited that the newly upgraded A(X)45MP with enhanced memory subsystem and optimized FPU can deliver prominent performance to address a wider range of applications. The industrial leading NX27V vector processor just got another award, the EDA & IP Product Award from EE Times (Nov. 16). It has been adopted by nearly 10 customer projects, targeting cloud accelerators with manycore architecture. In this release, NX27V provides a wider range of configurations to cover a variety of performance/area choices,” said Andes President and CTO Dr. Charlie Su. “Together with the complete software development environment and libraries support, A(X)45MP and NX27V are ready to serve more high-performance applications from the edge to the cloud.”

A(X)45MP and NX27V are available for licensing now. Please visit http://www.andestech.com/ for details or contact Andes sales at sales@andestech.com for more information.

About Andes Technology
Sixteen years in business and a Founding Premier member of RISC-V International, Andes is a leading supplier of high-performance/low-power 32/64-bit embedded processor IP solutions, and the driving force in taking RISC-V mainstream. Andes’ fifth-generation AndeStar™ architecture adopted the RISC-V as the base. Its V5 RISC-V CPU families range from tiny 32-bit cores to advanced 64-bit cores with DSP, FPU, Vector, Linux, superscalar, and/or multicore capabilities. The annual volume of Andes-Embedded SoCs has exceeded 2 billion since 2020 and continues to rise. At the end of Q3 2021, the cumulative volume of Andes-Embedded™ SoCs has reached 9 billion. For more information, please visit https://www.andestech.com. Follow Andes on LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube!

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Andes Technology Issues GDR to Be Listed on Luxembourg Stock Exchange for Expansion Plan

San Jose, California – October 29, 2021 – Andes Technology (TWSE: 6533; SIN: US03420C2089; ISIN: US03420C1099), a leading RISC-V CPU IP supplier, announced today that it successfully issued its overseas depositary receipts (GDR) on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange on September 13. Each newly issued overseas depositary receipts unit will represent 2 ordinary shares, and its initial market value is priced at US$31.78, which is approximately NT$440 per share. A total of 4 million units are issued, representing 8 million shares of common stock. The total amount raised overseas is approximately US$127 million (NT$3.517 billion). Andes Technology is currently the only public RISC-V CPU IP supplier, and the GDR shareholders are mainly foreign institutional investors who aim for long-term investment.

“The funding allows Andes to achieve the main goal of boosting medium-term and long-term capital investing in R&D and expanding product lines, especially high-end products, “Frankwell Lin, Chairman and CEO of Andes Technology stated. “Moreover, global investors are able to share the fast-growing RISC-V market. To meet the urgent demand for RISC-V high-end computing solutions, the funds will be mainly put into accelerating the expansion of product design centers to strengthen our existing leading RISC-V product portfolio as well as speed up the development of high value and high-end RISC-V CPU IPs and SoC software and hardware integrated solutions. In order to seize the market of profitable high-end multicore CPU IPs and boost sales momentum, Andes’ design centers in Taiwan, United States and Canada plan to recruit 200 R&D talents to develop the next-generation RISC-V products for applications including 5G, artificial intelligence/machine learning, HPC, ADAS, automotive electronics, AR /VR, blockchain, cloud computing, data center, server, Internet of Things, MCU, storage devices, security, wireless devices, and other massive and high-performance computing markets.”

Andes reports revenue growth of 72.6% (YoY) in the first half of 2021 and 63% of the revenue is contributed by RISC-V products, including standard IP licensing and customization computing business. In addition, the revenue of 2020 is nearly doubled from that of 2018 when Andes started delivering its initial RISC-V cores. According to Counterpoint Research’s latest report, as semiconductor solutions require more and more versatile IPs, pure play semiconductor IP market size will grow at 11% CAGR to $8.6 billion per year by 2025. RISC-V is growing rapidly, due to its open-source advantage, easier power consumption optimization, reliable security functions and lower political risk impact. RISC-V processors will continue to see fast adoption across multiple categories including IoT, industrial and automotive, which are the key sectors with 28%, 12% and 10% adoption respectively by 2025. These favorable factors for market expansion will benefit Andes and its customers.

“Andes provides hardware IP, but just like software companies, our R&D manpower is a knowledge-intensive production line,” Dr. Charlie Su, President and CTO of Andes Technology said. “Since established, Andes has devoted tremendous resources into R&D and focused on developing the best processor IPs to shorten customer’s time-to-market. That is the main reason why Andes has been able to report record-breaking revenue throughout the years. To keep the growth momentum going, Andes will recruit more R&D talents around the world. Based on the solid foundation, we will extend our portfolio to cover more high-value products and address the demand for high-performance computing solutions and grow along with the booming market.”

Looking ahead to the coming decade, as more and more international technology companies are embracing RISC-V and expanding their market and applications, Andes is determined to continue to drive the RISC-V momentum as the leading pure play processor IP vendor. By leveraging years of extensive experience helping customers achieve mass production of diversified products, Andes will support even more RISC-V SoC design teams to introduce new products and its revenue and profit will advance with the soaring RISC-V market.

RISC-V in 2025

About Andes Technology

Sixteen years in business and a Founding Premier member of RISC-V International, Andes is a leading supplier of high-performance/low-power 32/64-bit embedded processor IP solutions, and a main force to take RISC-V mainstream. Andes’ fifth-generation AndeStar™ architecture adopted the RISC-V as the base. Its V5 RISC-V CPU families range from tiny 32-bit cores to advanced 64-bit cores with DSP, FPU, Vector, Linux, superscalar, and/or multicore capabilities. The annual volume of Andes-Embedded SoCs has exceeded 2 billion since 2020 and continues to rise. To the end of 2020, the cumulative volume of Andes-Embedded™ SoCs has reached 7 billion. For more information, please visit https://www.andestech.com. Follow Andes on LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube!

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