GOWIN Semiconductor Corp. Announces to Join RISC-V Foundation Membership

Article By : GOWIN Semiconductor Corp

GOWIN Semiconductor Corp. will be the first China-based FPGA manufacturer to join the RISC-V Foundation.

Foshan, China Oct 19th, 2017 – GOWIN Semiconductor Corp., the leading programmable logic
devices provider in China, today announces to join RISC-V Foundation membership as the first
China based FPGA manufacturer in the membership. This is also the second international industry
alliance that GOWIN participates after MIPI alliance in 2016, a clear commitment to the industry
on our vision to be an international FPGA supplier.

RISC-V (pronounced “risk-five”) is a new instruction set architecture (ISA) that was originally
designed to support computer architecture research and education; and is now set to become a
standard open architecture for industry implementations under the governance of the RISC-V
Foundation. RISC-V ISA is designed from ground-up to be scalable to wide range of applications
from high performance computing servers to low power embedded systems and IoT devices.
Moreover, RISC-V ISA is open sources and freely available for anyone to design, manufacture
chips based on the RISC-V ISA. The RISC-V ISA was originally developed in the Computer
Science Division of the EECS Department at the University of California, Berkeley.

“As the first China based FPGA manufacturer to be the member of RISC-V Foundation,
GOWIN’s mission is to contribute to the affiliation by developing the RISC-V ecosystem and
disseminating the RISC-V ISA to customers in China and Asia”, said by Dr. Ning Song, President
and CTO of GOWIN Semiconductor Corp. “We are implementing RISC–V ISA in our Arora™
family devices to enable customers accelerate their innovation through the free, simplified
RISC-V ISA and our high performance, cost effective FPGA. This product strategy is especially
important in China and Asia countries as the governments, the market here are encouraging
startups and innovation. GOWIN is confident to achieve our mission as we have the best FPGA
products, R&D and application team in China to support our customers and ecosystem here.”

About GOWIN Semiconductor Corp.
Founded in 2014, GOWIN Semiconductor Corp., headquartered with major R&D in China, has
the vision to accelerate customer innovation world wide with our programmable solutions. We
focus on optimizing our products and removing barriers for customers using programmable logic
devices. Our commitment to technology and quality enables customers to reduce the total cost of
ownership from using FPGA on their production boards. Our offerings include a broad portfolio
of programmable logic devices, design software, intellectual property (IP) cores, reference designs,
and development kits. We strive to serve customers in the consumer, industrial, communication,
medical, and automotive markets worldwide.

For more information about GOWIN, please visit www.gowinsemi.com

*About RISC-V Foundation
*RISC-V (pronounced “risk-five”) is a new instruction set architecture (ISA) that was originally
designed to support computer architecture research and education and is now set to become a
standard open architecture for industry implementations under the governance of the RISC-V
Foundation. The RISC-V ISA was originally developed in the Computer Science Division of the
EECS Department at the University of California, Berkeley.
The RISC-V Foundation, a non-profit corporation controlled by its members, directs the future
development and drives the adoption of the RISC-V ISA. Members of the RISC-V Foundation
have access to and participate in the development of the RISC-V ISA specifications and related
HW / SW ecosystem.

For more information about RISC-V Foundation, please visit https://riscv.org
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