Chennai, India-based InCore Semiconductors laid out plans for a family of RISC-V based cores as well as deep-learning accelerators and SoC design tools.
The company was founded by members of the Shakti Research team at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, to create commercial RISC-V solutions leveraging the Shakti Open Source IP with a focus on AI/ML, Security, IoT Wireless and Fault Tolerant applications. According to G. S. Madhusudan, chief executive of InCore and a principal scientist at the Institute, the startup is developing two families of in-order cores that target edge systems ranging from ultra-low-power IoT to desktops.
The low-end E-class cores use three-stage pipelines and come in 32- and 64-bit versions supporting a subset of the RISC-V ISA. They will run at less than 200 MHz and come with ports of FreeRTOS, targeting Arm’s M-class cores. The high-end, 64-bit C-class cores use a five-stage pipeline and support the full RISC-V ISA and virtualization. They target speeds up to 800 MHz but can be customized to run up to 2 GHz and issue two instructions per cycle.
Versions of both E and C cores will be available before the end of the year. Superscalar and dual-issue capabilities will be available before April 2019.
Last updated: December 26th, 2025
