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CHIPS Alliance is an open source hardware consortium relevant to AI safety through its work on open, auditable chip designs and RISC-V processors, which relate to compute governance and hardware transparency concerns in AI development.

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CHIPS Alliance is a Linux Foundation project that fosters open source collaboration on hardware designs for silicon devices and FPGAs, including open CPUs, peripherals, and IP blocks. It brings together 52 member organizations to lower chip development costs and accelerate innovation through shared resources and workgroups. Its work on open hardware tooling and RISC-V SoCs has implications for compute transparency and governance.

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  • •Open source hardware consortium with 52 member organizations developing CPUs, peripherals, and IP blocks for silicon and FPGAs.
  • •Hosts 14 projects and 6 workgroups focused on open hardware and software tooling for chip design.
  • •Established in 2019 under the Linux Foundation to lower barriers to chip development through collaboration.
  • •Recent work includes SystemVerilog/UVM open source tooling and modular RISC-V SoC design projects.
  • •Relevant to AI safety via open, auditable hardware designs that could support compute governance and transparency.

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EntityPropertyValueAs Of
CHIPS AllianceNotable ForDevelops Caliptra open-source Root of Trust (v2.1: ~1.6M logic gates, dual RISC-V cores, quantum-resilient cryptography). Most promising cross-vendor foundation for hardware-enabled AI governance.Mar 2026
CHIPS AllianceDescriptionOpen-source hardware development organization under the Linux Foundation. Develops Caliptra, an open-source silicon Root of Trust with contributions from AMD, Google, Microsoft, NVIDIA, and Samsung.Mar 2026
CHIPS AllianceFounded Date2019—

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CHIPS Alliance Welcome!

 CHIPS (Common Hardware for Interfaces, Processors and Systems) Alliance harnesses the energy of open source collaboration to accelerate hardware development.

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 The CHIPS Alliance develops high-quality, open source hardware designs relevant to silicon devices and FPGAs. By creating an open and collaborative environment, CHIPS Alliance shares resources to lower the cost of development. Companies and individuals can work together to develop open source CPUs, various peripherals, and complex IP blocks. CHIPS Alliance is open to all organizations who are interested in collaborating on open source hardware or software tools to accelerate the creation of more efficient and innovative chip designs.

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 52 Member Organizations

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 Blog March 30, 2026 CHIPS Alliance launches the SV Tools Project for open source development of SystemVerilog/UVM codebases Blog March 28, 2026 CHIPS Alliance at 2026 OCP EMEA Summit Blog March 18, 2026 Designing Modular and Reusable RISC-V SoCs with Topwrap and Guineveer Read more from our Blog
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