OpenTitan is an open-source silicon project that has gone commercial.

OpenTitan open-source silicon to hits market after 5 years

The OpenTitan coalition and the lowRISC silicon ecosystem announced OpenTitan has reached commercial availability for its open-source silicon project.

The groups said this historic milestone marks the culmination of five years of collaboration and substantial investment by the OpenTitan Coalition, comprising industry giants such as Google, Winbond, Nuvoton, zeroRISC, Rivos, Western Digital, Seagate, ETH Zurich, and G+D Mobile Security. It was hosted by non-profit lowRISC.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.