Andes Waits For Market Momentum For Cuzco CPU
Andes CTO Charlie Su said the company put its high-end RISC-V CPU on the back burner for commercial reasons.
By Sally Ward-Foxton, EE Times | November 2, 2026
TAIPEI, Taiwan – Andes Technology has slowed development of its Cuzco high-end RISC-V CPU IP as it redirects engineering resources to a rapidly growing AI business, CTO Charlie Su told EE Times. Su insisted the project’s ambition remains, even if the technology emerges in a different form and on a different timeline than originally planned.
RISC-V IP vendor Andes had spun out Condor to develop Cuzco after identifying a future market need for a high-end data center CPU based on RISC-V, but pulled the technology back in-house earlier this year.
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