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Andes Technology Records 1 Billion SoC Shipments in 2018 Containing Its CPU IP and 3.5 Billion Since InceptionHSINCHU, TAIWAN , Feb. 19, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- As the first public listed CPU IP company in Asia, specializing in low-power, high-performance 32/64-bit processor IP cores and SoC platform, Andes Technology Corporation (TWSE:6533) announced an extraordinary record of 1 billion annual SoC shipments containing its CPU IP in 2018. The cumulative SoC shipments surpassed 3.5 billion. Applications in which Andes CPU IP performs include AI and machine learning, audio, Bluetooth, gaming, GPS, MCU, sensor fusion, SSD controllers, touch screen and TDDI controllers, USB 3.0 storage, voice recognition, Wi-Fi, and wireless charger. Andes President, Frankwell Lin declared, “The shipments of SoC embedded with Andes CPU cores have been experiencing remarkable growth from 430 million in 2016 to 590 million in 2017 and further to 1 billion in 2018 at an annual growth rates of 37% and 69%, respectively. This data demonstrate that Andes’ product development and service practice is solid and mature, and our comprehensive solutions and competitive technologies enable customers to enter their market with strong product offerings. Andes continues to focus on processor IP development to bring more and better products and solutions to market. As more and more customers start mass production of their SoCs, we believe the SoC shipment volumes and associated royalties of Andes IP will continue growing at the accelerating rate demonstrated up to now.” Dr. Charlie Su, Andes CTO and Senior Vice President, also stated, “Driving innovations is the motto of Andes R&D teams and the key to maintaining Andes products’ competitive edge. In addition to expertise in processor technologies, Andes continues to accumulate a rich, growing body of experience from providing technical support to over 150 customers. Expertise and experience are the reasons customers choose Andes over competitors. Andes Custom Extension™ (ACE) is a good example. Its powerful features allow SoC design engineers, not familiar with processor pipeline design, to easily add customized instructions to Andes processors to improve the performance dramatically in a short time. For ACE customers, the COPILOT tool not only generates RTL and toolchains, it can also generate verification patterns and cross-checking environment to greatly simplify designers’ tasks to verify the correctness of their instruction designs.” Andes Technology Corporation is a public listed company with well-established technology and teams to develop innovative high-performance/low-power 32/64-bit processor cores and associated development environment to serve worldwide rapidly growing embedded system applications. The company delivers the best super low power CPU cores, including the rising star RISC-V series with integrated development environment and associated software and hardware solutions for efficient SoC design. Up to the end of 2018, the cumulative amount of SoCs containing Andes’ CPU IP reaches 3.5 billion. To meet the demanding requirements of today's electronic devices, Andes Technology delivers configurable software/hardware IP and scalable platforms to respond to customers' needs for quality products and faster time-to-market. 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 and provides a total solution of RISC-V, the 32/64-bit RISC-V series as V5 families processors cores include N25/NX25, N25F/NX25F and A25/AX25. For more information on Andes Technology and its products of low-power, high-performance 32/64-bit CPU IP cores, please visit www.andestech.com or contact [email protected]. Jonah McLeod Andes Technology Corporation 510 449 8634 [email protected] |