In 2013, Xiong Puxiang first conceived the idea of building a sophisticated and elegant operating system due to his dissatisfaction with the limitations of small RTOS at that time. Over the past 11 years, RT-Thread has evolved into a leading IoT operating system in China, with an installed base exceeding 100 million units. It has gained the trust of developers, chip manufacturers, terminal companies, and investors across the industry chain.
Recently, RT-Thread secured angel funding from Jufeng Investment, a subsidiary of Huaqiang Jufeng. Jufeng Investment focuses on supply chain investments, and Zeng Haiying, head of Jufeng, emphasized that the investment opportunity lies in the shared values between the two parties. Both aim to deliver better products to the market, enabling developers to work more efficiently and helping terminals reduce costs.
Over these 11 years, how has RT-Thread captured the attention of 150,000 developers? How has it managed to attract makers, chip companies, terminal manufacturers, and cloud service providers in the rapidly growing IoT ecosystem?
At a recent event held on the 21st floor of the Huangxuan Hotel in Shenzhen, RT-Thread, in collaboration with Shanghai Ruiside Electronic Technology Co., Ltd., launched its new product and partner program under the theme “Accumulating Chengrui Huize Baichuan.†Xiong Puxiang, founder and general manager of Ruiside Electronics, revealed the key behind RT-Thread’s success.
“With the increasing networking trend of devices, connectivity has become a fundamental requirement for innovation,†said Xiong. “IoT terminals are no longer isolated embedded systems. The OS running on them must support full IoT capabilities—networking protocols, low-power management, file systems, security mechanisms, and even cloud SDKs and AI interaction.â€
The newly released RT-Thread 3.0 is a next-generation IoT operating system designed for applications, processing cores, and networking protocols. Built upon a decade of open-source experience, it offers high maturity, stability, rich middleware components, low resource consumption, strong customization, ease of secondary development, and commercial support for all mainstream chips and CPU architectures.
**What is RT-Thread?**
1. RT-Thread is an RTOS kernel, born in 2006 and developed by Mr. Xiong. It is fully open source, compact in size, and widely adopted by major chip manufacturers and terminal companies, with strong market validation.
2. RT-Thread serves as a middleware platform, offering complete software components such as file systems, device frameworks, GUI libraries, application frameworks, and more.
3. RT-Thread is also a developer community—the largest embedded open-source community in China, with over 150,000 developers and growing rapidly.
4. Finally, RT-Thread is a company: Ruiside Electronic Technology, which provides ongoing development, maintenance, updates, and support for the RT-Thread ecosystem.
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