About Openchip
Openchip designs RISC-V accelerators and systems on chip, together with the software needed to run them, for AI and high performance computing. RISC-V is an open instruction set that anyone can build on without a licence fee. The company is headquartered in Barcelona, Spain, and says it was selected under a European Important Project of Common European Interest to design a family of accelerator chips. It positions its products as European alternatives for sovereign computing.
Openchip was founded in 2021 and is based in Barcelona, Spain. It is listed under AI Accelerators, ASICs, CPUs & RISC-V.
Compute Technologies
- AI Accelerators
- ASICs
What Openchip works on
AI Accelerators
An AI accelerator is a chip, or a part of a chip, designed to run machine learning faster or with less energy than a general-purpose processor. The category includes GPUs, TPUs, neural processing units (NPUs) and chips from many startups.
ASICs
An ASIC, or application-specific integrated circuit, is a chip designed to do one job or a narrow set of jobs. Its circuits are fixed when the chip is made. A CPU can run any program; an ASIC does what it was designed for and nothing else.
CPUs & RISC-V
A CPU, or central processing unit, is the general-purpose chip that runs a computer. It reads instructions, does arithmetic and logic, and decides what happens next. Every phone, laptop and server has at least one.
