Jun 12, 2026 TAIPEI, June 5, 2026 — COMPUTEX 2026 officially concluded today under the theme "AI Together." This year’s exhibition became the ultimate arena for compute power, focusing heavily on AI chips, advanced computing infrastructure, and embodied intelligence. Amidst the fierce competition, S2C, the world's largest vendor focusing exclusively on providing prototyping verification solutions, joined forces with RISC-V architectural leader Andes Technology. Together, they delivered a joint technical presentation and hosted a live demonstration of the Andes AX66 Edge AI Demo based on S2C’s Prodigy S8-100 prototyping system, capturing significant industry attention.
Solving AI Complexity Through Deep Collaboration
The explosive growth of High-Performance Computing (HPC) and AI has pushed chip design complexity to unprecedented levels. Multi-core clusters and custom instruction extensions have become standard, while designs nearing hundreds of billions of gates frequently trigger severe capacity bottlenecks in traditional prototyping systems. To break through these limitations, S2C and Andes Technology have deepened their long-term strategic partnership to tackle these deployment bottlenecks right from the architectural source.
At the exhibition, the two companies combined deep technical presentations with a live, real-time inference demonstration.
The Setup: The Andes AX66 processor IP, compliant with the latest RVA23 standard, was mapped onto the S8-100 platform to build a highly integrated hardware emulation environment.
The Demo: Running on a Linux KVM virtualization platform, the system launched two virtual machines, each running a Large Language Model (LLM) based on the Llama2 architecture.
The Results: The display actively ran "TinyStories"—a lightweight LLM with 42 million parameters. Its compact footprint demonstrated the immense potential of RISC-V in efficient, edge-AI applications.
The powerhouse behind this demonstration is S2C’s latest-generation prototyping system, the Prodigy S8-100, equipped with the AMD Versal™ Premium VP1902 adaptive SoC (FPGA). Featuring an equivalent capacity of approximately 100 million ASIC gates per single core, it perfectly satisfies the massive capacity demands of high-performance, multi-core designs.
The S2C Advantage: Advanced Multi-FPGA Prototyping
As chip sizes grow, single-FPGA systems are often not enough. S2C’s Prodigy Prototyping solution stands out by offering a highly sophisticated hardware-software co-design environment that excels in multi-FPGA debugging. S2C provides a rich, comprehensive suite of ecosystem tools (such as Player Pro) that simplify compile, partition, and multi-chip debug workflows. This seamless integration allows engineering teams to detect deep hardware bugs and validate full-stack software workload simultaneously, drastically shortening time-to-market.
Ecosystem and Localization: Driving RISC-V to Mass Production
"The explosion of AI, autonomous driving, and HPC is pushing chip complexity to new heights," noted Ying, Vice President of S2C. "Faced with the challenge of hundreds-of-billions of gates, no single company can achieve all innovations alone. Customers urgently need solutions adapted to new technologies and applications to support rapid iterations, and EDA tools are the critical foundation for technology selection and architectural evaluation."
Ying emphasized that S2C is actively lowering the innovation threshold for complex SoC designs by building an open ecosystem that integrates IP, architecture, evaluation, and application scenarios early into the front-end design loop—a philosophy perfectly exemplified by their collaboration with Andes.
S2C's corporate strength is anchored by three pillars:
Product Maturity: With over 20 years of core technical accumulation, S2C’s prototyping solutions have been field-proven and trusted by more than 700 customers worldwide.
Ecosystem Synergy: By collaborating closely with leading IP vendors like Andes and other ecosystem chain players, S2C provides clients with seamless, comprehensive one-stop solutions.
Global Support: S2C operates multiple global service stations, delivering localized, hands-on technical support to ensure customer success wherever they are located.
From high-performance multi-core validation to edge AI inference, S2C has demonstrated more than just EDA technical prowess in the RISC-V domain. They have established a robust methodology centered on "ecosystem collaboration, workflow optimization, and early verification," constructing a complete lifecycle capability that guides RISC-V innovations from early-stage concepts straight to mass production.
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