lowRISC

lowRISC is creating a fully open-sourced, Linux-capable, RISC-V-based SoC, that can be used either directly or as the basis for a custom design. They aim to tape out their first volume chip this year.

Their open-source SoC (System-on-a-Chip) designs will be based on the 64-bit RISC-V instruction set architecture. Volume silicon manufacture is planned as is a low-cost development board.

lowRISC is a not-for-profit organisation working closely with the University of Cambridge and the open-source community.

http://www.lowrisc.org/

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Hello, welcome to our kickstarter to raise five hundred thousand dollars for a license from Intel to make x86 chips that can be legally sold in first world countries. For our stretch goal, we'll actually start designing and producing it.