ESWIN Computing recently announced that it has joined RISC-V Software Ecosystem (RISE), a global collaboration project co-launched by the Linux Foundation Europe (LFEU) and the RISC-V Foundation.

RISE is dedicated to enabling a robust software ecosystem including software development tools, virtualization support, language runtime, Linux distribution integration, and firmware to facilitate the rapid porting of the RISC-V architecture across different operating systems and shorten the time-to-market of processors. The goal is to expedite the software ecosystem building and commercialization of the new RISC-V architecture and advance the application of RISC-V products in such target market segments as mobile communications, data center, edge computing, and self-driving.

ESWIN Computing is active in promoting the R&D and innovation, large-scale application, and ecosystem building of RISC-V technology, and this is in sync with the concept of RISE.

Since its inception, ESWIN Computing has built a full-stack platform integrating software and hardware based on the RISC-V computing architecture, and independently developed a full range of 32-bit and 64-bit RISC-V CPU IPs to meet the requirements of diversified products for low power consumption, low cost, high cost-effectiveness, high energy efficiency, and high performance.

In terms of technology, ESWIN Computing offers a wide selection of products with 2/3/6/9/12-level pipelining schemes and customized IPs and solutions to satisfy the requirements for power, performance, and area (PPA) in different application scenarios, such as multimedia, wireless connection, automotive, and edge computing.

As to software, since October 2022, ESWIN Computing has continuously contributed what it has accumulated in the process of chip and software development to open source communities. As of May 2024, the number of its officially accepted patches has grown rapidly to more than 170, and some of them have been included in the open source mainline of multiple open source communities, such as the Android Open Source Project (AOSP), GCC, openEuler, RISC-V OpenOCD, Chromium, GNU, OpenSBI, OP-TEE, and QEMU.

As the saying goes, the flames rise high when everybody joins to add fuel. ESWIN Computing keeps strengthening cooperation with global partners to together promote the adoption of the RISC-V architecture in more application scenarios. In recent years, ESWIN Computing has been successively elected the first rotating chair of the RISC-V Ecosystem & Industry Committee (RVEI) of the China Electronics Standardization Association, a member of the China (RISC-V) Alliance and the China RISC-V Industry Alliance, an institutional director of the China Integrated Circuit Innovation Alliance, vice chair of the China UEFI RISC-V Working Group, and a founding member of the Xiongan New Area  Research Institute of Future Chip Innovation. The company is also a cornerstone member of the Beijing Institute of Open Source Chip (BOSC) and a strategic member of RISC-V International.

Going forward, ESWIN Computing will fully exploit its strengths and advance collaborative innovation with industry peers to expedite the development of the RISC-V architecture in software, hardware, product applications, and other aspects and advance ecosystem building. By doing so, it aims to meet market demand for a new generation of computing architecture and push the boundaries of RISC-V further.