Allen Wu on Disrupting $100M Cost of Building Custom AI Chips
Wu’s CoreLab Technology wants to slash development entry-level cost by 75% using RISC-V as a baseline to enable heterogeneous custom AI chips.
By Nitin Dahad, EE Times | March 5, 2026
In a recent interview with EE Times, Allen Wu, founder of CoreLab Technology, explained how he was looking to disrupt the $100 million cost of building your own AI chip, and how RISC-V enabled a path to making compute more affordable, customizable, and open—even if the chip comprises multiple processor architectures, including Arm products, GPUs, and DSPs.
Wu is known for being the face of Arm in China for many years, responsible for sales initially and then president of Arm in Greater China. After his departure from Arm, he started CoreLab Technology, a company focused on developing a custom processor platform and silicon solutions.
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