Ubitium Tapes Out Universal RISC-V Processor on Samsung 8nm for Embedded Systems

Ubitium, a German semiconductor start-up, today announced the tape-out of its first silicon on Samsung Foundry’s 8nm process. The tape-out was completed in December 2025. The device is the first universal RISC-V processor intended to replace the stack of specialized processors used in modern embedded systems.

The embedded computing market, valued at $115 billion according to multiple 2025–2026 industry trackers including Research and Markets and Coherent Market Insights, has seen growing processor proliferation. Vehicles that once operated with a single processor now incorporate more than 200 electronic control units, each with its own toolchain, software stack and supplier. Performance limitations have been joined by complexity as the dominant constraint, particularly as AI workloads expand into robots, drones and industrial machines. MarketsandMarkets and Global Market Insights note that RISC-V adoption in embedded and edge AI applications is accelerating, with the overall RISC-V market projected to grow at CAGRs between 30% and 41% through 2030–2031, driven by demand for customizable, open-source architectures that support IoT, automotive and edge inference consolidation.

Ubitium’s design builds on RISC-V, an open-source instruction set architecture already deployed in billions of chips worldwide. It extends the architecture beyond a ...