Learn the Latest on RISC-V and Vector Processing at All Five Andes Technology’s Presentations at the 2021 RISC-V Summit

Visit Andes’ Exhibition Hall Display to View Live Demonstrations of its Leading-Edge CPU IP Technology

Hsinchu, Taiwan – November 30, 2021 – Andes Technology Corporation (TWSE: 6533; SIN: US03420C2089; ISIN: US03420C1099), a leading supplier of high efficiency, low-power 32/64-bit RISC-V processor cores and Founding Premier member of RISC-V International will contribute five presentations at the RISC-V Summit from December 6 to 8, 2021. The company will also demonstrate its latest RISC-V IP in a prominent booth in the RISC-V Summit Exhibition Hall.  

Andes President and CTO, Dr. Charlie Su, will deliver the keynote speech “Beefing Up the Datacenter Accelerators” on December 7 at 1:45 PM. On December 8 at 4:00 PM, Dr. Paul Ku, Deputy Technical Director of Architecture Div., will provide IOPMP updates in his presentation “The Protection of IOPMP.”

According to the ResearchAndMarkets report released in September this year, the global market for data center accelerators should grow from $13.5 billion in 2021 to $66.4 billion by 2026, at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 37.6 percent for the period of 2021-2026. Design teams are being challenged to come out a scalable architecture with a limited power budget in a short time window. To address this, Dr. Su will identify the best-in-class, off-the-shelf processor IP for the task. His Keynote will explain how Andes’ RISC-V solutions help designers customize their designs to meet the high-performance goals, tightly couple them with hardwired engines, and integrate the customized processor compilers with their AI model compilers.

Additionally, Toolchain Group Manager, Dr. I-Wei Wu, will introduce “Performance of TVM AutoScheduler for Andes Vector Processor.” Chun-Wei Shu, Software Engineer, will discuss “Bring Multicore RISC-V and Zephyr RTOS Together.” In addition, Academia Sinica in collaboration with National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan and Andes will present “Sail Specification for RISC-V P-Extension.”

For more information, please visit the RISC-V Summit website.

About Andes Technology Corp.
Sixteen years in business and a Founding Premier member of RISC-V International, Andes is a leading supplier of high-performance/low-power 32/64-bit embedded processor IP solutions, and a main force to take RISC-V mainstream. Andes’ fifth-generation AndeStar™ architecture adopted the RISC-V as the base. Its V5 RISC-V CPU families range from tiny 32-bit cores to advanced 64-bit cores with DSP, FPU, Vector, Linux, superscalar, and/or multicore capabilities. The annual volume of Andes-Embedded SoCs has exceeded 2 billion since 2020 and continues to rise. To the end of Q3 2021, the cumulative volume of Andes-Embedded™ SoCs has reached 9 billion. For more information, please visit https://www.andestech.com. Follow Andes on LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube!

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Andes Technology Corp. Brings Its Broad Family of RISC-V CPU IP to the Silicon Catalyst Semiconductor Incubator

Hsinchu, Taiwan and Silicon Valley, CA – September 8, 2021 – Andes Technology Corporation (TWSE: 6533), a leading supplier of high efficiency, low-power 32/64-bit RISC-V processor cores and Founding Premier member of RISC-V International, today announced that it has joined Silicon Catalyst’s In-Kind Partner program. Andes Technology will make available a wide range of its RISC-V processors to startups participating in the Silicon Catalyst incubator program.

These include all Andes RISC-V offerings between the smallest N22 to its multicore 5-stage pipeline 25 and 27 families with P extension, floating point, L2 cache controller and memory management unit. Incubator startups will also have access to Andes’ AE250 Pre-integrated AHB platform, AE350 Pre-integrated AXI platform, and AndeSight Eclipse-based Integrated Development Environment.

“Andes has been helping a steady stream of new design starts to incorporate our wide range of RISC-V AndesCore™ processors,” said Dr. Charlie Su, President and CTO of Andes Technology. “Silicon start-ups such as those in the Silicon Catalyst incubator program are ideal examples of the new ventures. Many have great products on papers but need the IP and tools to lift their design from the page and implement it in silicon. The Silicon Catalyst incubator and Andes provide them the perfect environment and high efficiency RISC-V CPU IPs to achieve this goal. We are delighted to be part of this endeavor.”

“We applaud Andes’ initiative in expanding the reach and visibility of the RISC-V ISA,” said Calista Redmond, CEO of RISC-V International. “As an open computing platform, the continued growth and adoption of RISC-V depends on a broad ecosystem of hardware and software tools and IP. Andes contributing its silicon-proven RISC-V IP to the Silicon Catalyst incubator will help make it easier for emerging startups to build the next generation of semiconductor applications with RISC-V.”

The mission of Silicon Catalyst is to lower the capital expenses associated with the design and fabrication of silicon-based IC’s, sensors, and MEMS devices. For over seven years, the Silicon Catalyst partner ecosystem has enabled early-stage companies to build complex silicon chips at a fraction of the typical cost. Silicon Catalyst has created a unique ecosystem to provide critical support to semiconductor hardware start-ups, including tools and services from a comprehensive network of In-Kind Partners (IKPs). The Portfolio Companies in the incubator utilize IKP tools and services including design tools, simulation software, design services, foundry PDK access and MPW runs, test program development, tester access, and banking and legal services. Additionally, the startups can tap into the world-class Silicon Catalyst network of advisors and investors.

“Adding a tier one RISC-V IP supplier such as Andes Technology; with its broad range of IP, hardware design tools, and integrated software development environment; broadens the selection of design IP and tools our incubator companies have to create with,” said Paul Pickering, Managing Partner at Silicon Catalyst. “Andes’ success with startups in the emerging 5G and AI chip markets demonstrates their understanding of nurturing new ventures building products for markets that are just beginning to field large numbers of new silicon designs. We are pleased to have them join the Silicon Catalyst incubator and look forward to seeing new designs containing their IP.”

About  Silicon Catalyst
It’s About What’s Next® – Silicon Catalyst is the world’s only incubator focused exclusively on accelerating solutions in silicon (including IP, MEMS & sensors), building a coalition of in-kind and strategic partners to dramatically reduce the cost and complexity of development. More than 400 startup companies have engaged with Silicon Catalyst since April 2015, with a total of 38 startup and early-stage companies admitted to the incubator. With a world-class network of mentors to advise startups, Silicon Catalyst is helping new semiconductor companies address the challenges in moving from idea to realization. The incubator/accelerator supplies startups with a path to design tools, silicon devices, networking, access to funding, banking and marketing acumen to successfully launch and grow their companies’ novel technology solutions. The Silicon Catalyst Angels was established in July 2019 as a separate organization to provide access to seed and Series A funding for Silicon Catalyst portfolio companies.

More information is available at www.siliconcatalyst.com and www.siliconcatalystangels.com

About Andes Technology
Sixteen years in business and a Founding Premier member of RISC-V International, Andes is a leading supplier of high-performance/low-power 32/64-bit embedded processor IP solutions, and a main force to take RISC-V mainstream. Andes’ fifth-generation architecture AndeStar™ adopted the RISC-V as the base. Its V5 RISC-V CPU families range from tiny 32-bit cores to advanced 64-bit cores with DSP, FPU, Vector, Linux, superscalar, and/or multicore capabilities. The annual volume of Andes-Embedded SoCs has exceeded 2 billion since 2020 and continues to rise. To the end of 2020, the cumulative volume of Andes-Embedded™ SoCs has surpassed 7 billion.

For more information, please visit https://www.andestech.com. Follow Andes on LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube!

About RISC-V AndesCore™
Andes Technology’s comprehensive CPU includes entry-level, mid-range, high-end, extensible and security families to address the full range of embedded electronics products, especially for connected, smart and green applications. From 2017, Andes expands its product line to RISC-V processors and provides a total solution in V5 family cores, including N22, N25F/NX25F, D25F, A25/AX25, A25MP/AX25MP, A27/AX27/NX27V, A45/D45/N45, AX45/DX45/NX45 and A45MP/AX45MP.

For more information about Andes Technology products, please visit http://www.andestech.com/

Contact Information
Andes Technology – Jonah McLeod, jonahm@andestech.com
Silicon Catalyst – Richard Curtin, richard@siliconcatalyst.com

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Andes Technology and Cyberon Collaborate to Provide Edge-Computing Voice Recognition Solution on DSP-capable RISC-V Processors

Press highlights:

  • Cyberon DSpotter, the voice wake-up and local command recognition solution, supports Andes RISC-V CPU families
  •  The local and offline command recognition provides users with a quick-response voice operation interface, protects personal privacy, and also reduces the development and maintenance costs of the device manufacturers.
  •  AndesCore™ D25F with DSP/SIMD P-extension instructions boosts the computing performance and efficiency for voice processing to provide competitive voice recognition and voice assistant solutions on edge devices

HSINCHU, TAIWAN – August 19, 2021 – Cyberon Corporation, a leading embedded speech solution provider, and Andes Technology (TWSE: 6533), a major supplier for high efficiency, low-power 32/64-bit RISC-V processor cores, announced their collaboration on the edge-computing voice recognition solution, Cyberon DSpotter, by exploring Andes DSP-capable RISC-V CPU cores such as the popular D25F and comprehensive software development environment to provide a cost-effective, high performance, and easy-to-deploy solution.

The development of AI technology has recently brought tremendous progress in speech recognition. In addition to voice assistant services based on cloud-computing architecture, there are growing demands for local voice recognition by edge-computing devices from the market. Locally executed offline command recognition provides users with a quick-response voice operation interface, protects personal privacy, and reduces the development and maintenance costs of the device manufacturers.

For many products that have a strong demand for voice control, such as wearable devices, home appliances, IoT devices, etc., low computing resource requirements and high recognition performance are important considerations. Therefore, Cyberon based on more than 20 years of professional experience, introduces its new generation algorithm, DSpotter, for voice wake-up and local command recognition.

Different from most solutions in the market, Cyberon’s DSpotter adopts phoneme-based acoustic model to improve customers’ product development efficiency. Developers do not need to collect a large amount of training corpus in advance. They can create the required commands by simply entering text. Based on the relevant foundation built over the past years, Cyberon has developed more than 40 global languages for DSpotter. It helps customers to introduce their products to the global market in a timely manner. Regarding the recognition performance, DSpotter has high accuracy and high noise robustness due to the strength of its acoustic model consisting of TDNN-F architecture. In addition, the algorithm has been well optimized by Cyberon to fit into general MCU platforms without using a dedicated neural network processor. In this way, manufacturers can provide products with voice interfaces through cost-effective hardware.

Furthermore, the performance of DSpotter is increased significantly by leveraging RISC-V DSP/SIMD P-extension (RVP) instructions on AndesCore™ D25F, a 32-bit RISC-V CPU core with highly optimized 5-stage pipeline. The RVP enables multiple data in integer registers to be processed in one single cycle, thus efficiently boosts the computations for voice, audio, image and signal processing. It also greatly improves performance for edge AI involving the above data types. The D25F is the first market-proven RISC-V RVP-capable processor, and has the most complete ecosystem in development tools, libraries for DSP and neural networks, and audio/voice codec.

“The AI technology of edge computing has gradually entered people’s lives,” said Alex Liou, VP of Cyberon Embedded solution BU. “Cyberon’s DSpotter algorithm helps developers to reduce development costs of voice recognition applications. We offer a convenient and easy-to-use tool to create customized commands of global languages. Developers can create various voice recognition applications efficiently to meet the strong and diverse demands of the market. The collaboration with Andes extends the application of DSpotter technology to RISC-V platforms and demonstrates excellent computing and recognition performances. It is hoped that it will bring more products with intelligent and convenient voice interface to people’s lives.”

”Intelligence is now in everyone’s daily life empowering not only by cloud computing but also by edge computing,” said Simon Wang, Technical Marketing Manager of Andes Technology, and in charge of RISC-V compute acceleration ecosystem. “Andes offers a comprehensive 32 and 64 bit RISC-V processor core series with high computation efficiency and low power consumption for general computing solutions. In addition, we provide AI solutions based on RVP, RVV and ACE instruction extensions with the support of Andes NN SDK and have been cooperating with partners to extend our solutions. We are excited to work with Cyberon to offer very competitive voice recognition and voice assistant solutions for edge devices based on the strength of AndesCore™ D25F, esp. its RVP support.”

About Cyberon Corporation
Cyberon Corporation, with its headquarter in New Taipei City, Taiwan, is a leading speech solution provider. Established in 2000, Cyberon has rich experiences in speech algorithm and application development. Its speech recognition and text-to-speech technologies have been widely adopted by IOT devices, home appliances, wearable devices, smart toys, automotive equipment, and enterprise customers. Cyberon provides a full range of voice solutions for embedded MCU/DSP, OS platforms, and server-based services, and is committed to providing users with natural and convenient human-machine voice interfaces. For more information, please visit http://www.cyberon.com.tw

About Andes Technology
Sixteen years in business and a Founding Premier member of RISC-V International, Andes is a leading supplier of high-performance/low-power 32/64-bit embedded processor IP solutions, and a main force to take RISC-V mainstream. Andes’ fifth-generation AndeStar™ architecture adopted the RISC-V as the base. Its V5 RISC-V CPU families range from tiny 32-bit cores to advanced 64-bit cores with DSP, FPU, Vector, Linux, superscalar, and/or multicore capabilities. The annual volume of Andes-Embedded SoCs has exceeded 2 billion since 2020 and continues to rise. To the end of 2020, the cumulative volume of Andes-Embedded™ SoCs has reached 7 billion. For more information, please visit https://www.andestech.com. Follow Andes on LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube! 

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