IEEE Spectrum: RISC-V AI Chips Will Be Everywhere
"Esperanto Techology’s chip heralds new era in open-source architecture; Intel set to cash in"
Article, by Samuel Moore in IEEE Spectrum: “RISC-V AI Chips Will Be Everywhere.”
- Dave Ditzel comments on the sea change in AI, along with Esperanto's approach and details of the ET-SoC-1 SoC.
Esperanto’s Dave Ditzel and Intel’s Bob Brennan discuss the RISC-V ecosystem
Esperanto’s Dave Ditzel and Intel’s Bob Brennan discuss the RISC-V ecosystem
by Karl Freund | Feb 9, 2022 | Video
Intel has announced it is joining RISC-V, and has created a $1B Innovation Fund to help jump-start the RISC-V ecosystem. Now, Intel competitors will be motivated to consider Intel Foundry Services as a Fab partner. Esperanto’s Dave Ditzel and Intel’s Bob Brennan join Karl Freund to discuss the implications.
Intel Creates $1B Innovation Fund to Grow RISC-V Market (And Attract New Foundry Customers)
Article, by Karl Freund in Forbes: “Intel Creates $1B Innovation Fund to Grow RISC-V Market (And Attract New Foundry Customers).”
- This announcement will have a long-lasting impact on the entire semiconductor industry.
- Intel must fabricate chips for its competitors to grow its foundry business, and is investing in the emerging RISC-V market as the catalyst.
- Esperanto Technologies is now an early Intel Foundry Services partner.
- Intel’s $1B IFS Innovation Fund will support early-stage startups and established companies building disruptive technologies for the foundry ecosystem. A large part of this will be to accelerate RISC-V.
- Intel also announced the IFS Accelerator.
Esperanto Technologies Partners with Intel to Advance Massively Parallel RISC-V-based AI Acceleration Solutions
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., February 7, 2022 – Esperanto Technologies™, the leading developer of high-performance, energy-efficient artificial intelligence (AI) inference accelerators based on the RISC-V instruction set, today announced that the company is entering a strategic partnership with Intel to advance its massively parallel RISC-V-based AI acceleration solutions. As part of the partnership, Esperanto Technologies plans to use Intel Foundry Services (“IFS”) silicon and chiplet packaging technologies to advance its RISC-V-based technology and deliver its massively parallel AI acceleration silicon solutions spanning from cloud to edge.
“Intel Foundry Services is excited to add Esperanto’s massively-parallel AI accelerators to the IFS ecosystem,” said Bob Brennan, Vice President and General Manager of IFS Customer Solutions Engineering. “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.”
“Esperanto builds on top of the RISC-V ecosystem to deliver our leading AI acceleration solutions. Intel’s announcements of support and investment in the RISC-V Community are invaluable in helping to advance and proliferate RISC-V solutions from Esperanto and others, ultimately benefiting all end users,” said Art Swift, president and CEO at Esperanto Technologies.
“Esperanto plans to use Intel Foundry Services leading edge silicon and advanced packaging technologies with our next generation massively-parallel RISC-V based AI accelerators,” said David Ditzel, founder and executive chairman at Esperanto Technologies. “Intel Foundry Services’ unique packaging technologies will make chiplet solutions both practical and cost effective, enabling a range of acceleration products to span from cloud to edge.”
Esperanto Technologies is the AI RISC-V leader, offering massively-parallel 64-bit RISC-V-based Tensor compute cores currently delivered in the form of a single chip with 1088 ET-Minion compute cores and a high-performance memory system. Designed to meet the high-performance and low-power requirements of large-scale datacenter customers, Esperanto’s existing RISC-V-based inference chip is a general purpose, parallel processing solution that can accelerate many parallelizable workloads. It is designed to run any machine learning (ML) workload well, and to excel at ML recommendation models, one of the most important types of AI workloads in many large datacenters.
About Esperanto Technologies:
Esperanto Technologies develops massively parallel, high-performance, energy-efficient computing solutions for Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning based on the open standard RISC-V instruction set architecture. Esperanto is headquartered in Mountain View, California with engineering sites in Portland, Oregon, Barcelona, Spain, and Belgrade, Serbia. For more information, please visit https://www.esperanto.ai/
See Esperanto Technologies at the RISC-V Summit 2021
Esperanto Delivers Presentations and Exhibits at the RISC-V Summit 2021
Esperanto Technologies™, developer of high-performance, energy-efficient machine learning (ML) inference accelerators based on the RISC-V instruction set, announces its participation in The RISC-V Summit 2021, co-located with the Design Automation Conference and SEMICON West. Esperanto will deliver several presentations, and exhibit at the event.
- Where: Moscone Center West, San Francisco, CA, and online.
- When: December 6-8, 2021
- See: https://events.linuxfoundation.org/riscv-summit/
Highlights:
- Presentation by Art Swift, President and CEO, Esperanto Technologies.
- Technical Presentation: “Esperanto’s Custom RISC-V ISA Extensions for Energy-Efficient Machine Learning Applications” by Darren Jones, VP VLSI Engineering, Esperanto Technologies on Wednesday, December 8, 9:30 – 9:55am.
- Lightning Talk: “Functional Gap between RISC-V V and SPIR-V: a Study Case on the Graphics Domain” by Abel Bernabeu of Esperanto Technologies, Wednesday, December 8, 9:00 – 9:10am.
- Exhibit: Esperanto will feature its energy-efficient AI solutions.
Esperanto is a Gold sponsor of the RISC-V Summit.
About The RISC-V Summit 2021:
RISC-V Summit brings the community together to show the power open collaboration can have on the processor industry. The audience spans across industries, organizations, workloads, and geographies to learn about the technology advancements in the RISC-V ecosystem and visibility of RISC-V successes. See https://events.linuxfoundation.org/riscv-summit/
About Esperanto Technologies:
Esperanto Technologies develops high-performance, energy-efficient computing solutions for Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning based on the open standard RISC-V instruction set architecture. For more information, please visit https://old.esperanto.ai/
EE Journal: “Esperanto coaxes 1092 RISC-V Processors to Dance on the Head of a Pin, er Chip”
A new article, by Steven Leibson in EE Journal: “Machine Learning: Esperanto coaxes 1092 RISC-V Processors to Dance on the Head of a Pin, er Chip”
Leibson writes:
- Dave Ditzel has a legendary history with computing and microprocessors. He joined AT&T Bell Labs to work on C language development. While there, he developed several generations of processors designed to execute optimized compiled C programs including CRISP, Bell Labs’s “C-language Reduced Instruction Set Processor.”
- Ditzel presented details of Esperanto’s ET-SoC-1 ML (machine learning) inference chip at Hot Chips 33 in August. This chip fully displays Ditzel’s long, long association with RISC processors. The ET-SoC-1 ML inference engine incorporates 1092 (that’s “one thousand ninety-two”) customized, 64-bit RISC-V microprocessor cores, 160 Mbytes of on-chip SRAM, and assorted I/O ports – all on one 7nm die.
- “Ambitious” is an understated word for this chip design.
