Disgraced Arm China CEO Wu to Lower Custom NPU Development with RISC-V
Allen Wu, founder of CoreLab Technology and the disgraced former Arm China head, aims to break the $100 million cost barrier for custom AI chips. He envisions AI processors as heterogeneous systems combining CPUs, GPUs, and domain-specific accelerators, tailored to workloads. CoreLab’s approach reduces entry costs by using RISC-V as a common baseline, enabling shared software pipelines across diverse cores. Targeting applications like robotics, CoreLab offers a sandbox environment for experimentation, with development boards expected by late 2026.
