Open ISA Automotive Embedded Microcontrollers
Replacing proprietary cores with the open ISA in vehicle-qualified and connectivity microcontrollers lets suppliers build deeply embedded control silicon on a shared, licence-free architecture.
Developed mainly in: China, Germany and United StatesImpacting: Rest of Asia, China, Europe and North America
Zijin Semiconductor, incubated by carmaker Great Wall Motor, says it has shipped more than 10 million automotive-grade chips. Its M100, billed as China's first vehicle-qualified MCU built on an open-source RISC-V core, entered mass production and went into cars on 18 December 2025, running body functions such as headlights, ambient lighting and switch control.
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- Chinese automaker-backed chipmaker passes ten million RISC-V automotive MCU shipments
Autonews · 15 Oct 2026
- Chinese RISC-V automotive microcontroller maker passes ten million shipped chips
Geisou · 8 Oct 2026
- Infineon commits next-generation automotive microcontrollers to open RISC-V instruction set
Autonews · 5 Oct 2026
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