{"city":"Barcelona","name":"Openchip","slug":"openchip","facts":[{"date":"2026-09-10","type":"ownership_change","value":"Controlled by Government of Catalonia","source":"Tech.eu"},{"date":"2026-09-10","type":"ownership_change","value":"Controlled by SETT (Spanish Society for Technological Transformation)","source":"Tech.eu"},{"date":"2026-09-10","type":"ownership_change","value":"Controlled by SETT (Spanish Society for Technological Transformation) and the Government of Catalonia","source":"Tech.eu"},{"date":"2026-09-10","type":"partnership","value":"SETT","source":"Tech.eu"},{"date":"2026-09-10","type":"funding_round","value":"EUR 115000000","source":"Tech.eu"},{"date":"2026-06-11","type":"partnership","value":"Licensed Baya Systems' data-movement platform and NoC fabric technology for RISC-V-based multi-chiplet intelligent compute systems","source":"bayasystems.com"}],"peers":[],"stage":null,"state":"Catalonia","aliases":["Openchip and Software Technologies"],"country":"Spain","domains":[{"why":"Openchip is a fabless chip designer building RISC-V multi-chiplet compute systems, using network-on-chip fabric technology licensed from Baya Systems.","list":null,"rank":null,"tier":"watchlist","layer":null,"total":49,"domain":"AI Core","scores":{"gate_ne":["technology","firepower"],"leverage":6,"position":6,"progress":8,"firepower":6,"commercial":2,"deployment":4,"production":2,"technology":4},"edition":null,"segment":null}],"founded":null,"signals":[{"date":"2026-09-10","header":"Openchip received a €115 million SETT investment to accelerate AI and high-performance-computing chip design.","outlet":"Tech.eu"},{"date":"2026-08-06","header":"OpenChip has attracted €111 million in public backing for its RISC-V accelerator chips.","outlet":"EE Times"},{"date":"2026-06-08","header":"Openchip was one of two fabless AI chip companies represented in the Industry Advisory Group (IAG).","outlet":"EE Times"},{"date":"2026-04-17","header":"OpenChip has grown to more than 300 employees while developing its semiconductor business.","outlet":"EE Times"},{"date":"2026-04-17","header":"DARE is developing a general-purpose processor chiplet for European data centers that interfaces with OpenChip and Axelera AI accelerators.","outlet":"EE Times"},{"date":"2025-10-31","header":"Lyten, Navblue, and OpenChip chose to locate operations in Pomerania.","outlet":"EE Times"}],"website":"openchip.com","category":"AI Infra · Chips & accelerators","categories":[{"name":"Custom silicon & IP","domain":"AI Core","parent":"AI Infra · Chips & accelerators"}],"last_round":null,"updated_at":"2026-09-22T22:27:08.966+00:00","facts_total":11,"positioning":"Openchip is the Spain sovereign compute vehicle, founded in 2021 out of an initiative led by the Catalan engineering group GTD and the Barcelona Supercomputing Centre. It develops fabless processors and accelerators on the open RISC-V architecture for AI and HPC, outsourcing manufacture to specialist foundries, and positions on energy efficiency against the power consumption of data centre and supercomputing infrastructure. In June 2026 SETT invested EUR 115 million to accelerate chip design, coordinated with the Government of Catalonia existing shareholder stake to ensure local operational presence. On 2026-06-11 it licensed Baya Systems data-movement platform and NoC fabric for RISC-V multi-chiplet intelligent compute systems, which places it as a Baya customer alongside Tenstorrent and in the same European sovereign-silicon contest as SiPearl and Semidynamics. Deployment, production and commercial all score 1 because nothing is shipping. The open question is whether state capital at this scale produces silicon or a subsidised design house.","sub_category":"Custom silicon & IP","signals_total":8,"url":"https://www.frontiertechintelligence.com/companies/openchip","title":"Openchip · ai core, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain · scores, facts and signals · Frontier Tech Intelligence","description":"Openchip is a fabless chip designer building RISC-V multi-chiplet compute systems, using network-on-chip fabric technology licensed from Baya Systems. AI Core watchlist (score 49) 8 signals and 11 facts with sources.","publisher":"Frontier Tech Intelligence (Future Frontiers, a trade name of Essential Cognition Inc.)","note":"Assessment by Frontier Tech Intelligence; facts and signals carry their sources."}