Zephyr Project Welcomes Seven New Silver Members as Global Embedded Ecosystem Continues to Grow

The project celebrates its 10th anniversary with new member growth and the recipients of the first-ever Community Awards at Zephyr Developer Summit in Prague

Summary

• The Zephyr Project marks its 10th anniversary by expanding its ecosystem with seven new Silver members that bring deep expertise across the entire embedded product lifecycle.
• These additions strengthen Zephyr's position as a secure, vendor-neutral foundation for the next generation of connected devices and industrial automation.
• The community will celebrate these milestones and the recipients of the first-ever Community Awards at the upcoming Zephyr Developer Summit in Prague in October.

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 3, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- The Zephyr® Project, an open source project at the Linux Foundation building a secure, connected and flexible real-time operating system (RTOS) for resource-constrained devices, today announced seven new Silver members: Canonical, Dojo Five, GigaDevice, Morse Micro, Northern.tech, Siemens and Space Cubics. This growth marks a decade of collaboration and commercial expansion across the embedded ecosystem.

The addition of these members reflects Zephyr's growing role as a shared, vendor-neutral technology foundation. As more companies build connected, resource-constrained devices on Zephyr, the ecosystem is expanding to support the full product lifecycle, from firmware architecture, connectivity and security to testing, deployment, software updates and long-term maintenance. By bringing production experience and expertise across these areas, the new members are helping strengthen Zephyr as a reliable, portable platform that companies rely on.

To recognize the people who helped build that foundation, the project introduced the Zephyr Community Awards. The awards honor developers, maintainers and community members whose technical contributions, leadership, documentation and advocacy have shaped Zephyr over the past 10 years. Winners will be announced at the Zephyr Developer Summit, taking place alongside the Open Source Summit Europe, from October 7-9 in Prague. The Zephyr Maintainers Forum will provide an additional dedicated forum for maintainers to collaborate in person on the technical and community priorities shaping the project.

"Over the last decade, Zephyr has evolved to become a foundational technology that companies are depending on for the long term," said Kate Stewart, vice president of dependable embedded systems at the Linux Foundation. "New members bring investment and expertise, developers bring the experience of building real products and our maintainers turn that collaboration into technology the entire ecosystem uses. That's what has made the project successful, and what will carry it through years to come."

Learn more about the Zephyr Community Awards, register for the Zephyr Developer Summit and Zephyr Maintainers Forum or learn more about the Zephyr Project here: https://www.zephyrproject.org/.

Supporting Quotes

"Zephyr represents the kind of open, vendor-neutral collaboration the embedded industry needs as devices get smaller and more connected. It has become foundational infrastructure for connected devices, and Canonical wants to help shape where it goes next. Joining the Zephyr Project formalizes our conviction that a strong, open RTOS deserves direct investment. We look forward to contributing to the community building the RTOS layer that so much of the industry now relies on."
– Jonathan Beri, Head of Product, IoT, Canonical

"Over the past decade, Zephyr has demonstrated what embedded development can become when openness, portability and community replace fragmented approaches. Dojo Five joined the Zephyr Project because we want to strengthen that foundation and make it easier for product teams to confidently build, verify, deploy and maintain production-ready embedded systems. We look forward to contributing our practical experience in firmware architecture, security, safety, testing and modernizing embedded development while helping organizations take Zephyr-based products from initial development through dependable, long-term deployment."
– Joe Schneider, Founder and CEO, Dojo Five

"Open source ecosystem expansion is critical for GigaDevice's GD32 MCU global business. Joining the Zephyr Project as a Silver Member enables us to deepen community collaboration, improve native Zephyr support across our GD32 product lineup, and deliver a more streamlined development experience for worldwide IoT and industrial developers."
– Vincent Li, SVP and General Manager, MCU Business Unit, GigaDevice

"We're proud to join the Zephyr Project, the leading open source real time operating system for embedded platforms. Morse Micro's Wi-Fi HaLow is highly complementary to Zephyr's platform agnostic design, enabling developers to easily build secure, low power, long range connected devices."
– Michael De Nil, Co-founder and CEO, Morse Micro

"Zephyr has become an important foundation for the next generation of connected, resource-constrained devices, and we see a growing need to manage those devices reliably throughout their entire software lifecycle. As Mender supports software updates for Zephyr-based microcontrollers, joining the Zephyr Project is a natural step for us. We look forward to working more closely with the community and contributing our experience in robust and secure software updates to help ensure connected devices are more reliable and maintainable throughout their lifetime."
– Thomas Ryd, CEO, Northern.tech

"Siemens is proud to join the Zephyr Project, strengthening our clear commitment to the open-source community. As a global leader in industrial automation and software, we look forward to leveraging Zephyr's secure, scalable and modular RTOS to power our industry-grade products. By actively contributing to this vibrant ecosystem, we aim to accelerate digital transformation, ensuring our embedded solutions meet the highest standards of reliability, security and open innovation for our customers worldwide."
– Dominik Tacke, Principal Key Expert, Siemens

Spacecraft must deliver dependable real-time operation and remain maintainable over long product lifecycles, even as their on-board computers vary with mission needs. Zephyr provides the open, vendor-neutral foundation we need to meet these requirements without tying our software to a single hardware platform. By joining the Zephyr Project, Space Cubics looks forward to contributing our experience in radiation-tolerant computing, expanding upstream support for space-grade hardware and helping make open source software a practical foundation for missions in Earth orbit, on the Moon and beyond.
– Yasushi Shoji, Co-founder and CEO, Space Cubics, Inc.

About the Zephyr Project
The Zephyr® Project is an open source, scalable real-time operating system (RTOS) supporting multiple hardware architectures. To learn more, please visit www.zephyrproject.org.

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