Allen Wu, formerly the chief executive of Arm China, has reportedly founded a new company that will develop chips based on the RISC-V instruction set architecture. The company – Zhongzhi Chip (Shanghai) Technology Co. — will of course challenge both Arm and Arm China in some respect. Meanwhile, rumor has it that the company could be a Tenstorrent 'representative' in China.
Details about the Zhongzhi Chip are scarce, but the word chip in the name implies that we are talking about an entity that designs RISC-V processor IP and computing platform solutions rather than microcontroller units, though this is our assumption not a fact cast in stone. In fact, the information was made public by TrendForce, a respected market tracker, citing a report from Chip_Inside, so the details might be inaccurate and should be taken with a grain of salt.
