As a not-for-profit company, they bring together a unique combination of skills, expertise, and vision to provide a home for multi-partner projects. These projects deliver verified, high-quality IP and tools that lay the solid foundations necessary for the rapid development cycles required for next-generation silicon products. Based in Cambridge, UK, lowRISC employs a talented engineering team with diverse experience in industry, open source, and research and development.

Their team consists of hardware, software, and full-stack specialists who possess skills in processor and SoC design, hardware security, design verification, RISC-V tools, and the LLVM compiler. lowRISC values durability, open source principles, technical excellence, and collaborative engineering. They strive to create infrastructure that sustains future generations of computer systems, while also advancing the whole industry through open and permissively licensed work.

As part of the open technology ecosystem, lowRISC fosters inclusive and participatory communities in the pursuit of scalable open source silicon. lowRISC also operates as a community interest company (CIC), working for the benefit of the community. They fund their activities through partner contributions, work-for-hire projects, grants, donations, and consultancy.

With a history rooted in the University of Cambridge Computer Lab, lowRISC continues to collaborate with academic and corporate partners, as well as the wider open source community, to accelerate their projects and make a significant impact