Our mission is to help you achieve outstanding
AI performance and efficiency, from cloud to edge,
with low total cost of ownership (TCO).

Esperanto delivers high-performance, energy-efficient computing solutions that are the compelling choice for the most demanding AI and non-AI applications. The changing, computationally intensive workloads of the machine learning era mandate a new clean-sheet solution, without the baggage of existing legacy architectures, or the programmability limitations of overspecialized hardware. Esperanto leverages the simple, elegant, open standard RISC-V instruction set architecture (ISA) to deliver flexibility, scalability, performance and energy-efficiency advantages.

EXECUTIVE TEAM

A leadership team with vision and experience.

Our executive team includes Silicon Valley veterans with deep technology backgrounds who share a commitment to deliver world class computing solutions for the AI industry.

Art Swift

President and CEO

Dave Ditzel

Founder, CTO and Board Member

Udi Kalekin

VP of HPC Software

Lee Flanagin

Chief Business Officer

Ralph Harms

Chief Financial Officer

Darren Jones

VP of VLSI Engineering

Jin Kim

Chief Data Science Officer

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

  • Dave Ditzel Founder, CTO and Board Member

  • Art Swift President and CEO

  • Geoffrey Baehr Chairman, Almaz Capital

  • Ling LiDecent Capital

  • Charlie RyanChairman, UFG Asset Management

In quotes.

“Esperanto has taken the opposite approach to competitors’ giant power-hungry chip accelerators, offering a lower-power chip that can be used in multiples.”

SALLY WARD-FOXTON, EETIMES

“All in all, Esperanto is moving in the right direction for completing the RISC-V ecosystem. The lower cost and growing selection of RISC-V solutions, coupled with a rapidly growing software ecosystem, represent a real and viable alternative to ARM.”

DAVID SCHOR, WIKICHIP FUZE

“I had the chance to watch a demo of the platform and came away quite impressed with the performance and power efficiency of the RISC-V based platform. I was also pleased to see that the Esperanto device is not a one-trick pony, as the team demonstrated Resnet50, DLRM, and the Transformer network underlying BERT.”

KARL FREUND, FORBES

“Our data science team was very impressed with the initial evaluation of Esperanto’s AI acceleration solution. It was fast, performant and overall easy to use. In addition, the SoC demonstrated near-linear performance scaling across different configurations of AI compute clusters. This is a capability that is quite unique, and one we have yet to see consistently delivered by established companies offering alternative solutions to Esperanto.”

DR. PATRICK BANGERT, VP OF AI, SAMSUNG SDS

“Yes, I’ve seen the RISC-V light. Chief protagonist in my conversion was the high priest of microprocessor design himself, Dave Ditzel.”

JIM TURLEY, EE JOURNAL

“The motivation for Esperanto is that there is no RISC-V alternative to high end ARM processors. Without that, it is hard for many companies to make an architectural switch…”

PAUL MCLELLAN, BREAKFAST BYTES BLOG, CADENCE

“Intel Foundry Services is excited to add Esperanto’s massively-parallel AI accelerators to the IFS ecosystem. The combination of Esperanto’s low-power design techniques and IFS advanced silicon and packaging technologies should enable thousands of Esperanto’s RISC-V based processors to operate in a single package with remarkably low power.”

BOB BRENNAN, VP, GM, IFS CUSTOMER SOLUTIONS ENGINEERING

“Esperanto has achieved an industry first by demonstrating its massively parallel RISC-V silicon running a variety of real-world AI workloads. It was exciting for me to see the company put the chip through its paces across a variety of scenarios including different models, data types, batch sizes and compute cluster combinations – all showing competitive results. This is another positive step forward for the RISC-V industry in the AI space as this new market continues to grow even faster than we had previously forecasted.”

RICHARD WAWRZYNIAK, PRINCIPAL ANALYST, SEMICO RESEARCH