lowRISC CIC

lowRISC CIC is a not-for-profit engineering organization based in Cambridge, UK, with a presence in Zurich, Switzerland.

Founded in 2014 at the University of Cambridge, lowRISC focuses on making open-source silicon commercially relevant and widely adopted. As a regulated entity, it reinvests profits from commercial projects into education and community-benefiting initiatives. The company specializes in collaborative engineering, offering services such as silicon design and development, toolchain development for the RISC-V ecosystem, and security solutions. lowRISC is the primary steward of significant open-source projects like OpenTitan, a silicon root of trust, and Ibex, a RISC-V CPU core. It also provides training and support for these technologies, ensuring high-quality outcomes for its partners, which include corporations, academic institutions, and open-source communities.