European RISC-V startup is named Quintauris, appoints CEO
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The RISC-V startup formed by major semiconductor companies Bosch, Infineon, Nordic, NXP and Qualcomm has been named Quintauris and has appointed Alexander Kocher as CEO.
The plan to form a European company to drive the adoption of RISC-V hardware and AI architectures was announced in August 2023 (see German AI RISC-V joint venture poses challenge to ARM).
Kocher took over as CEO in December 2023 having previously served as CEO of Elektrobit, a supplier of 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. Kocher has also held multiple senior management and engineering roles in Continental, Siemens and Infineon.
It appears that Quintauris is not being set up to develop RISC-V cores – but to encourage the adoption of compatible products based on the open-source RISC-V architecture. This will include the provision of reference architectures and help establish industry standards with an initial application focus on automotive but with an eventual expansion to include mobile and IoT.
In addition the company defines itself partly as a counterpart to the RISC-V Software Ecosystem (RISE) project. RISE is a collaboration to accelerate the availability of software for high-performance and power-efficient RISC-V cores running high level operating systems.
Quintauris states on its website that its mission is to advance the adoption of RISC-V globally by enabling next-generation hardware development.
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