German chip start-up Ubitium has reached tape-out of its first silicon for its universal RISC-V processor on Samsung Foundry’s 8 nm process.
The announcement was made at Embedded World 2026 in Nuremberg, Germany, happening this week.
The universal RISC-V processor runs on Linux and RTOS simultaneously, handles radar and audio signals in real time and performs neural networks for inference at the edge. This is without separate accelerators or coprocessors, Ubitium said.
The tape-out, completed in December of 2025, of the universal RISC-V processor will be used to replace the stack of specialized processors used in modern embedded systems.
"This tape-out turns a long-held thesis into silicon," said Martin Vorbach, CTO of Ubitium. "Embedded workloads have outgrown the architectures the industry relies on today. Consolidation isn't optional anymore. It's inevitable."
Ubitium is working with Samsung Foundry, Siemens Digital Industries Software and ADTechnology to move the RISC-V processor toward commercial production.
The processor’s architecture is equipped with a universal processing array with runtime reconfiguration and an LPDDR5 memory interface.
Ubitium said it is targeting a second tape-out for later in 2026 and volume production to follow in 2027.
