[1] lowRISC is active in RISC-V-related open source hardware and software development and stewards the OpenTitan project.

[3] OpenTitan is under the stewardship of lowRISC and collaboratively developed by Google, ETH Zurich, Nuvoton, G+D Mobile Security, Seagate, and Western Digital.

Development on Ibex started in 2015 under the name "Zero-riscy" and "Micro-riscy" at the ETH Zurich and University of Bologna, where it was part of the PULP platform.

lowRISC initiated and led the upstreaming of the RISC-V LLVM backend, where Alex Bradbury is code owner.

[11] lowRISC was spun out of the University of Cambridge Computer Lab in 2014 by Alex Bradbury, Robert Mullins, and Gavin Ferris[1] with the goal of creating a fully open source SoC and low-cost development board.