Quintauris and HighTec EDV Systeme Join Forces to Advance RISC-V Ecosystem for Automotive

October 28, 2025 -- Quintauris, the company founded as a single source to enable compatible RISC-V-based products, announces an essential partnership with HighTec EDV-Systeme, a leading provider of automotive compiler solutions.

This partnership brings together HighTec’s expertise in open-source technologies with Quintauris’ focus on high-performance, interoperable RISC-V platforms for automotive applications. HighTec develops safety-qualified C/C++ and Rust compiler suites for leading microcontroller families and embedded microprocessors, while Quintauris delivers next-generation hardware platforms. By combining their technical strengths and shared vision, the two companies aim to unlock new levels of performance, safety and scalability in automotive solutions.

“Collaborating with HighTec allows us to reinforce our commitment to ensure ecosystem defragmentation and secure interoperability,” said Pedro Lopez, Head of Market Strategy of Quintauris. “Their direction in compiler technology and functional safety aligns perfectly with our mission to accelerate RISC-V adoption for automotive critical applications.”

Quintauris is the bridge between RISC-V innovations and commercial solutions, working to specify reference architectures and develop a future RISC-V reference platform. HighTec’s ISO 26262 ASIL D qualification, along with its advanced LLVM-based compiler, toolchains for C/C++ and Rust, provides a solid, future-proof foundation for building reliable, secure and multicore-capable RISC-V solutions.

“We believe that reference architectures from Quintauris and open-source will drive the future innovation,” said Mario Cupelli, CTO of HighTec EDV-Systeme GmbH. “We are excited about our partnership with Quintauris, that will enable the success of RISC-V in the automotive market, with our tools and services that are designed to meet the highest standards of functional safety and performance.”

This partnership will also contribute to joint innovation on benchmarking, performance optimization, and real-time software enablement, further strengthening the RISC-V ecosystem for OEMs, Tier 1s, and semiconductor partners.

About Quintauris

Quintauris is a global provider of RISC-V-based products. Founded in 2023, Quintauris develops profiles, reference architectures and software components which enable compatibility and help establish RISC-V solutions to be widely used across various industries.

Founded by leading semiconductor players such as Bosch, Infineon, Nordic Semiconductor, NXP, Qualcomm, and STMicroelectronics, Quintauris’ mission is to accelerate the global adoption of RISC-V, the open standard Instruction Set Architecture (ISA), enabling the development of next-generation processors for automotive, industrial, and IoT applications.

Learn more at www.quintauris.com and connect with us on LinkedIn and YouTube.

About HighTec EDV Systeme GmbH

HighTec EDV-Systeme GmbH, Saarbruecken/Germany, is the world’s leading commercial provider of compiler solutions built on cutting edge open-source technologies. For over three decades, HighTec has been pioneering the transformation of open-source software into automotive- and industrial grade solutions. The company offers ISO 26262 ASIL D certified tools for embedded software development, the PXROS-HR real-time operating system, and a comprehensive suite of design-in services. 

HighTec’s ASIL D qualified Rust and C/C++ compiler for leading multicore microcontrollers in the automotive and industrial sectors such as Arm®, TriCore™/AURIX™/TRAVEO™ families, RISC-V, Power Architecture (PowerPC), GTM and Renesas architectures are continuously adapted and optimized to new architectures in close cooperation with the silicon partners.  

In addition to the multi-architecture compiler, HighTec offers PXROS-HR, a safety-certified multicore RTOS for applications with safety and multicore requirements. PXROS-HR guarantees robustness, safety, high performance, and data security in real-time environments. PXROS-HR is certified according to ISO 26262 ASIL D / IEC 61508 SIL 3 and is complemented for ASIL D development by a Tool Qualification Kit as a basis for the certification of customer applications. 

Complementing this portfolio, HighTec offers development, training and consulting services. 

Founded in 1982, HighTec is a privately held global company with offices in Germany, the Czech Republic, the Netherlands, Hungary and China. 

For more information about HighTec EDV-Systeme GmbH, visit www.hightec-rt.com.