Editing OpenCores (section)

==History ==
Damjan Lampret, one of the founders of OpenCores, stated on his website that it began in 1999.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.lampret.com/ |title=Home |website=lampret.com}}</ref> The new website and its objectives were reported publicly by ''[[EE Times]]'' in 2000<ref>Peter Clarke, "Free 32-bit processor core hits the Net", [[EE Times]], 28 February 2000 [https://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1214097]</ref> and [[CNET]] News in 2001.<ref>John G Spooner, "Open-source credo moves to chip design", ''CNET News'', 27 March 2001 [http://news.cnet.com/2100-1001-254816.html]</ref> Through the following years it was supported by advertising and sponsorship, including by [[Flex (company)|Flextronics]].<ref name="flextronics"/>

In mid-2007 an appeal was put out for a new backer.<ref>Peter Clarke, "OpenCores website, brand up for sale", ''EE Times Europe'' (online edition), 25 June 2007 [http://eetimes.eu/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=204300278]</ref> That November, Swedish design house ORSoC AB<ref>[http://www.orsoc.se ORSoC AB]</ref> agreed to take over maintenance of the OpenCores website.<ref>Peter Clarke, "Swedish design house agrees to maintain OpenCores", ''EE Times Europe'' (online edition), 28 November 2007 [http://eetimes.eu/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=204300278]</ref>

''EE Times'' reported in late 2008 that OpenCores had passed the 20,000 subscriber mark.<ref>Anne-Francoise Pele, "OpenCores records 20,000 users", ''EE Times Europe'' (online edition), 28 October 2008 [https://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1252362]</ref> In October 2010 it reached 95,000 registered users and had approximately 800 projects. In July 2012 it reached 150,000 registered users.

During 2015, ORSoC AB formed a joint venture with KNCMiner AB to develop [[bitcoin]] mining machines. As this became the primary focus of the business, they were able to spend less time with the opencores.org project. In response to the growing lack of commitment, the core [[OpenRISC]] development team set up the [[Free and Open Source Silicon Foundation]] (FOSSi), and registered the [https://www.librecores.org librecores.org] website as the basis for all future development, independent of commercial control.<ref>Announcement of FOSSi at ORConf2015, CERN, Genva. [http://openrisc.io/orconf/schedule.html schedule] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160408145633/http://openrisc.io/orconf/schedule.html |date=8 April 2016 }} and [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbLNTo_J0j0&list=PLUg3wIOWD8yoX2ECfeU_QP5snbu2Zs1Wp&index=12 video]</ref>