HiRain Joins Hands with Cercis Semiconductor to Inject Core Value into RISC-V Architecture Chips
Release time:
2025-09-02 09:32
On August 29, HiRain and Nanjing Cercis Semiconductor Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Cercis-Semi") formally signed a strategic cooperation agreement. The two parties will conduct in-depth cooperation in the fields of basic software and automotive-grade chips based on the RISC-V architecture, jointly promoting the innovation and development of domestic automotive electronic systems and chip technologies, and contributing to the upgrading of the intelligent connected automobile industry.
Under this strategic cooperation, the two parties will work closely together, give full play to their respective core advantages, and achieve in-depth complementarity of technologies and resources: HiRain will rely on its years of accumulated technical expertise and mature product experience in the field of basic software to provide solid support at the software level for the cooperation; Cercis-Semi, on the other hand, will contribute innovative strength at the hardware end with its automotive-grade MCU and SoC chip products built based on the open RISC-V architecture. RISC-V, with its open, flexible, and scalable features, provides a key path for realizing "independent and controllable" underlying chip technologies. The cooperation between the two parties aims to build a more efficient, secure, and reliable integrated automotive electronic software and hardware solution that connects the entire stack from underlying chips to upper-layer applications, so as to further enhance the comprehensive competitiveness of both parties in the automotive electronics field.
WANG Shunyan, Senior Vice President of HiRain, stated: "Cooperation with Cercis-Semi is an important step in the company's 'platform-based development' strategy. We will rely on our profound accumulation in the basic software business and combine it with Cercis-Semi's excellent chip products to jointly create a competitive integrated software and hardware solution in the industry, and promote the development of automotive electronic systems towards a safer and more intelligent direction."
CAO Changfeng, Chairman of Cercis-Semi, emphasized: "HiRain has rich development experience and solid technical strength in the field of vehicle electronic systems. We look forward to, through this cooperation, deeply integrating HiRain's powerful basic software with our chips built based on the open and flexible RISC-V architecture, further enhancing the software adaptability and system integration capabilities of Cercis-Semi's chip products, and jointly empowering China's intelligent automobile industry."
This strategic cooperation is not only a high-level complementarity of technologies and resources between the two parties, but also an important practice in the collaborative innovation of China's automotive electronics industry ecosystem. In the future, the two parties will continue to deepen their cooperation, jointly promote the development of domestic automotive-grade chips and basic software, and inject new impetus into the independent controllability and global competitiveness enhancement of China's intelligent connected automobile industry.
▎About HiRain
Beijing HiRain Technologies Co., Ltd. (referred to as "HiRain"), founded in 2003, is committed to becoming a world-class electronic system technology service company. Adhering to the concept of "Value Innovation, Serving Customers", it focuses on the automotive and intelligent transportation fields, providing global customers with automotive electronic products, R&D services and solutions, large assemblies and special vehicles, as well as intelligent transportation services. Headquartered in Beijing, it has a complete system for marketing, R&D, production, operation, and after-sales service. It has established R&D and service centers in China, the United States, Germany, and Malaysia, and owns four modern factories in Tianjin, Nantong, Nanchang, and Malaysia, providing high-quality and reliable electronic system technology services for global customers.
▎About Cercis Semiconductor
Nanjing Cercis Semiconductor Co., Ltd. (referred to as "Cercis-Semi") is an automotive-grade chip design company incubated by Great Wall Motor Technology Center. Relying on its complex SoC design capabilities and full-process development experience in automotive-grade chips, the company adheres to the open-source RISC-V technology route, deeply explores automotive application needs to build its product system, and has formed a product matrix covering from single-point breakthroughs to full-series coverage, including three core fields: automotive-grade MCU chips, high-precision analog chips, and intelligent domain controller SoCs.