Andes Technology Corporation engages in the research and developing, designing, manufacturing, and marketing of embedded processor intellectual property (IP), related hardware/software developing platform, and toolchains in Taiwan, Mainland China, the United States, and internationally. The company offers AndeStar Architecture, a patented 32-bit/64-bit RISC-style CPU architecture; AndesCore, a series of 32-bit/64-bit CPUs for use in embedded applications; Andes Custom Extension that allows designers design their CPU instructions on the already performance optimized AndesCore processors; and AndeShape Platform that contains various categories of products for system development with AndesCore processors. It also provides AndeSight IDE, an eclipse-based IDE that offers solutions to develop embedded applications; and AndeSoft SW Stack, which provides a set of software components, such as real-time operating system, Linux kernel and drivers, libraries, middleware, and application frameworks. Andes Technology Corporation was incorporated in 2005 is based in Hsinchu, Taiwan.