As of August 13, 2026, Andes Technology has reportedly shut down its Austin-based subsidiary, Condor Computing.
Condor was created in 2023 to develop the high-performance RISC‑V “Cuzco” CPU IP for data-center and HPC applications. The shutdown appears to end Condor as an operating unit; what Andes will do with Cuzco’s designs and patents has not yet been publicly clarified. The report is currently from a single industry publication, with no official Andes announcement located yet. Jon Peddie Research
Condor Computing is an Austin, Texas–based semiconductor design company focused on developing high-performance processor intellectual property using the open RISC-V instruction set architecture. Andes Technology established the business in March 2023 as a wholly owned United States research-and-development subsidiary. Its creation extended Andes’ presence in the American market while giving a specialized engineering team responsibility for designing advanced CPU cores for demanding computing applications.
The company’s central goal is to combine very high processing performance with strong power and silicon efficiency. Rather than manufacturing complete chips, Condor develops licensable CPU designs that customers can integrate into their own systems-on-chip. This model resembles the approach used by other processor-IP companies and allows chipmakers to customize products without designing a processor core entirely from scratch. Condor’s designs are intended to work within Andes Technology’s established software tools, development frameworks, and global support ecosystem.
Condor’s best-known project is Cuzco, a 64-bit RISC-V architecture created for data-center, artificial-intelligence, automotive, and high-performance computing workloads. The design uses out-of-order execution and other patented microarchitectural techniques intended to improve performance per watt and make efficient use of chip area. Cuzco reflects a broader industry effort to expand RISC-V beyond embedded and low-power devices into markets historically dominated by proprietary architectures such as Arm and x86.
Although Condor is a relatively young organization, its engineers draw on substantial experience in CPU design. Its work is significant because it supports an open-standard computing ecosystem while seeking competitive performance for complex, compute-intensive applications across a growing range of commercial markets.