CHIPS Alliance 2025- A Year of Breakthroughs in Open Silicon and the Road Ahead

Author: Rob Mains, Executive Director of CHIPS Alliance CHIPS Alliance is a six-year-old organization that is part of the Linux Foundation, whose mission is to foster collaborative, open source development in the silicon hardware design ecosystem. CHIPS champions all aspects of hardware development including: Chip design architecture Electronic design automation for design entry, design verification, and physical implementation FPGA tools Repository of chip designs and verification design benches Firmware Artificial intelligence and chip design