CHIPS Alliance
CHIPS Alliance is a Linux Foundation project (founded in 2019) that develops open-source hardware (silicon) and tools, including CPUs, SoC subsystems, peripherals, IP blocks, and FPGA tooling. The Alliance fosters collaboration among 50+ member organizations across industry (AMD, Antmicro, Google, Microsoft, SiFive, Intel, Nvidia, Cisco, Synopsys, Microchip, SanDisk and others) and academia (Berkeley, Stanford, MIT, and more) to lower the cost of hardware design, accelerate innovation in silicon, and provide an open and accessible alternative to proprietary EDA flows. CHIPS Alliance hosts more than a dozen technical projects including Chisel (Hardware Construction Language), F4PGA, Caliptra (Root of Trust), VeeR (RISC-V cores), Surelog/UHDM (SystemVerilog parsing), and the FPGA Interchange format. The Alliance does not publish a centralized REST API; technical assets are distributed via GitHub repositories under github.com/chipsalliance and member-driven mailing lists.
More than an index entry, but the surface is still mostly links rather than artifacts — the cohort most likely to move a full band from modest, well-targeted work.
API Evangelist profiles CHIPS Alliance the way a machine reads it — 20 machine-readable artifacts, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.
Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — CHIPS Alliance scores 19.9/100 (emerging), with a separate agent-readiness read of 7/100 (human only). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.
Kin Score
This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.
Kin Score
How this is scored →scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
How we profile CHIPS Alliance
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for CHIPS Alliance. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.
Pricing Plans 1
Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the six things the Kin Score reads for commercial clarity.
Published pricing tiers and plan structures.
Rate Limits 1
Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.
Documented rate limits and quota policies.
Chips Alliance Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSFinOps 1
Cost, billing, and metering signals let a buyer model the financial operations of an API before it's live. We profile them for the same reason we profile pricing: the money is part of the contract.
Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.
Chips Alliance Finops
FINOPSFeatures 8
The notable capabilities this provider advertises, captured as structured features so they can be searched and compared instead of read one landing page at a time.
Notable capabilities this provider offers.
Open Source Silicon Design
Open Source FPGA Toolchains
Open Hardware Construction Languages (Chisel)
SystemVerilog Parsing and Tooling
Open RISC-V Cores
Hardware Root of Trust (Caliptra, OpenPRoT)
FPGA Interchange Format Standardization
Cross-Industry Collaboration
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Security Posture 1
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Use Cases 8
What developers actually build with this provider — captured so the catalogue answers 'what is this for', not just 'what does this expose'.
What developers build with this provider.
Open Source CPU/SoC Design
FPGA Toolchain Development
SystemVerilog Linting and Compilation
Hardware Security Root of Trust
RISC-V IP Verification
EDA Tool Interoperability
Academic Hardware Research
Industry-Academia Hardware Collaboration
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Resources
Every other property we hold for CHIPS Alliance — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.
Get Started 1
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Build 1
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 2
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Commercial 1
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 4
The organization behind the API
Other 8
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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