Recently, Shanghai Kubuds Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as “Kubuds Tech”) announced its official joining of the Wine-Chimera Edition open-source project (hereinafter referred to as “Wine-CE”) and has become a member of the project maintenance team.

Project Address: https://gitee.com/wine-ce/wine-ce

Wine-CE (Chimera Edition, Cross-architecture Emulator) is a compatibility layer for running Windows programs on Linux systems with different instruction set architectures. It is based on the Wine project and the QEMU project. Adhering to the principle of “no emulation unless necessary”, the project achieves faster performance by only emulating Windows dynamic link libraries and qemuloader based on the guest instruction architecture, while forwarding calls to Unix libraries to the host for execution. Currently, it has implemented binary translation on platforms such as ARM, RISC-V, and Raspberry Pi 4, successfully enabling the operation of x86 Win32 programs.

The joining of Kubuds Tech is expected to further promote the development of the Wine-CE project on the RISC-V architecture, contributing to the construction of the RISC-V ecosystem. As a member of the RISC-V Prosperity 2036, Kubuds Tech is committed to providing comprehensive support for enterprises and teams engaged in chip research and development and information product innovation, including system-level adaptation, customized services based on open-source simulators, and basic software adaptation for mainstream RISC-V chips.

This collaboration is another important step for Kubuds Tech in promoting the RISC-V ecosystem development, not only strengthening its own technical capabilities in the RISC-V field but also bringing a positive impact to the development of the global RISC-V community.