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From Open Source Chips to AI Hardware: Highlights from the ECOS Team at the JLC Spark Conference

On September 19, the Shenzhen Convention and Exhibition Center in Futian was packed with visitors for the 4th JLC Open Source Hardware Spark Conference and Global AI Hardware Innovation Ecosystem Summit, hosted by JLC Group. The event attracted more than 2,200 engineers, makers, enthusiasts, industry experts, university faculty members, and students from countries and regions around the world. More than 50 industry partners also exhibited at the conference, showcasing the latest advances at the intersection of open-source hardware and artificial intelligence. The event created a platform for collaboration across the industry and opened a new chapter for the AI hardware innovation ecosystem.

As announced in our earlier article, "The ECOS Team Is Heading to the Spark Conference: Visit Our Booth and Explore Fully Open Source Chips", the ECOS Open Silicon Team (hereinafter the ECOS Team) joined the conference as a partner of the JLC Maker Fair. We brought our in-house open-source chips, development boards, robots, handheld game consoles, and chip design platforms to the event, presenting a range of achievements from across the open-source chip ecosystem. Visitors came throughout the day, from experienced embedded developers to students encountering hardware development for the first time. All showed strong interest in our vision of enabling everyone to design open-source chips.

A Journey to Zurich: An International Classroom on Open-Source Chips

In February, the chill still lingered in Switzerland, but the exchange of ideas was already heating up. Members of the ECOS Team's "One Student One Chip" project traveled to Zurich, Switzerland, to participate in the EFCL Winter School 2026, learning about cutting-edge computing systems and open-source chip technologies alongside young scholars from around the world (mainly Europe).

This was an international classroom bringing together architecture, algorithms, tools, and hardware implementation, and also a journey to bring China's open-source chip achievements to the world.

The "Wanxin" Open Source Chip Talent Cultivation Platform was Successfully Launched!

On November 8, 2025, the 2025 World Internet Conference Wuzhen Summit Network Information Technology Industry Ecosystem Development Forum was held in Wuzhen, Zhejiang Province. The forum, themed "Working Together to Build an Ecosystem and Share Development Opportunities," explored the future development direction and path of the network information technology industry ecosystem.

At the forum, the open-source chip team of the Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, launched "Wanxin," an open-source chip talent cultivation platform. Since 2018, the team has been developing open-source chip design solutions, launching and deploying multiple projects including "One Student One Chip", open-source EDA, and open-source IP. After six years, the "Wanxin" open-source chip talent cultivation platform was launched. "Wanxin" supports the entire chip design process, providing a one-stop design and tapeout solution for open-source chip talent cultivation. In the future, "Wanxin" will be globally oriented, continuously dedicated to cultivating a large-scale open-source chip talent pool and helping to create a new ecosystem for open-source chip talent cultivation.