Esperanto Technologies and NEC Cooperate on Initiative to Advance Next Generation RISC-V Chips and Software Solutions for HPC

Companies to cooperate on leading technologies in HPC and RISC-V design
to enable the next generation of supercomputers

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., November 18, 2024 – Esperanto Technologies™, a leading developer of RISC-V chips and software for high-performance computing (HPC) and artificial intelligence (AI), today announced that they are cooperating with NEC Corporation on the roadmap for next-generation chips and software for HPC computing. The goal of the cooperation is to facilitate the further development of hardware and software solutions to enable the next generation of supercomputers based on the RISC-V instruction set. The cooperation is expected to leverage NEC’s deep experience and expertise in HPC supercomputer design and development of HPC software stacks along with Esperanto’s technology and expertise in high-performance energy-efficient multiprocessor chips based on the RISC-V instruction set.

NEC Corporation has a long and influential history in supercomputing and HPC, providing systems that meets customer needs by integrating its CPU, GPU and vector solutions. What makes the company unique is their vector processor, which has been developed over decades. NEC’s expertise in vector architecture distinguished its machines in fields requiring large-scale numerical computation, such as weather forecasting and scientific research. In recent years, NEC has been active in integrating AI and machine learning capabilities into its supercomputing solutions, expanding its role in diverse areas from scientific research to industrial applications.

Esperanto Technologies develops high-performance processors and software for both HPC and AI applications. Compatible with the free and open RISC-V instruction set architecture, Esperanto’s chips deliver high performance per watt. Esperanto’s first product, the ET-SoC-1, packs over one thousand RISC-V cores on a single chip, providing high throughput for AI inference workloads while keeping power consumption low – typically under 30 watts – a critical advantage for data centers and edge computing. Next-generation products under development will add features for HPC and a broader set of AI applications. Esperanto’s expertise lies in designing scalable, energy-efficient and massively parallel architectures optimized for HPC and AI. As a founder of RISC-V International, Esperanto has played a significant role in the growing RISC-V ecosystem.

“By leveraging NEC’s deep experience and expertise in HPC, and harnessing the free and open, industry-standard RISC-V instruction set combined with Esperanto’s energy-efficient compute technology, we’re able to develop scalable, efficient AI plus HPC solutions that are both high-performance and energy-efficient,” said Art Swift, president and CEO of Esperanto Technologies. “We are looking forward to starting this strategic collaboration with NEC which will help advance supercomputing solutions by improving performance per watt while helping Esperanto to realize chip-level solutions for combined AI plus HPC workloads.”

“Migrating supercomputing to a more energy-efficient solution compatible with the RISC-V architecture presents a transformative opportunity for data centers worldwide. By reducing energy consumption without sacrificing performance, we can not only lower operating costs but also significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions—key to building a more sustainable computing ecosystem,” said Masaki Kondo, senior director, HPC Department at NEC Corporation. “We are looking forward to the collaboration with Esperanto, which aligns with our vision for supporting the RISC-V ecosystem in both chips and software to meet the growing demands of high-performance computing while reducing data center power demands.”

About Esperanto Technologies

Esperanto Technologies Inc. delivers massively parallel, high-performance, energy-efficient computing solutions that offer a compelling choice for the most demanding Generative AI and non-AI applications. The changing, computationally intensive workloads of the machine learning era mandate a new clean-sheet solution, shedding the baggage of existing legacy architectures, and 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. For more information, please visit https://www.esperanto.ai/

About NEC Corporation

NEC Corporation has established itself as a leader in the integration of IT and network technologies while promoting the brand statement of “Orchestrating a brighter world.” NEC enables businesses and communities to adapt to rapid changes taking place in both society and the market as it provides for the social values of safety, security, fairness and efficiency to promote a more sustainable world where everyone has the chance to reach their full potential. For more information, visit NEC at https://www.nec.com.

by Craig Cochran

Esperanto Technologies Expands Global Partner Network

Company’s Partners Add System Integration and Solutions Expertise As Well As Enhanced Access to US, European and Japanese Markets

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., May 22, 2023 – Esperanto Technologies™, the leading developer of high performance, energy-efficient artificial intelligence (AI) solutions based on the RISC-V instruction set, today announced that it is accelerating deployment of its ET-SoC-1 solutions through an expanded network of partners in key international markets. These companies enhance Esperanto’s capabilities with deep expertise in datacenter and edge systems technologies, and strengthen access to key customers in AI, high performance computing (HPC), generative AI and mixed-mode (AI plus HPC) applications.

To address the demand for AI-enabled systems, Esperanto has entered into a strategic partnership with Penguin Solutions, an SGH™ brand (Nasdaq: SGH) that provides HPC, AI, and Internet-of-Things (IoT) technologies, services, and expertise that span the continuum of edge, core, and cloud. Esperanto and Penguin Solutions are working closely to develop multiple systems in various form factors to address the demand for AI and HPC acceleration in the datacenter and at the edge.

In addition, Esperanto announced several value-added partnerships. In Italy, Esperanto announced a partnership with E4 Computer Engineering, an internationally recognized system integrator and solution provider for high-grade expertise in HPC, High Performance Data Analytics, AI and Deep Learning. In Germany, Esperanto announced a partnership with MEGWARE GmbH, one of Europe's leading supercomputing specialists. In Japan, Esperanto announced a partnership with Elematec Corporation, a provider of one-stop solutions for on-site planning and development, design and manufacturing services.

Esperanto is seeing growing demand worldwide for its energy efficient, massively parallel RISC-V solutions. Semico Research Corporation forecasts that the total market revenue for RISC-V AI SoCs will grow at 72.2% CAGR to $29 billion by 2027. Esperanto is currently serving datacenter and enterprise edge applications with its ET-SoC-1 AI/HPC Accelerator chip, featuring more than 1,000 64-bit RISC-V cores with attached vector/tensor units, with value-added card and server form factors provided by both Esperanto and its partners. In addition, Esperanto’s newly announced Cloud Access Program enables broader access to these systems for evaluation of its technology worldwide.

To request additional details and pricing, please visit www.esperanto.ai/contact.

“As one of the first companies shipping massively parallel RISC-V based hardware, Esperanto is in a unique position to serve these market needs through our expanded worldwide partner network,” said Art Swift, president and CEO at Esperanto Technologies. “We’ve been shipping RISC-V evaluation servers globally since last year, and now our expanded partner network will enable Esperanto to reach more customers interested in RISC-V acceleration for AI, HPC and mixed-mode workloads.”

“Penguin helps to accelerate customer access to the latest technology innovations for both AI and high performance computing,” said Thierry Pellegrino, senior vice president at SGH and president of Intelligent Platform Solutions. “By partnering closely with Esperanto, we are able to offer one of the industry’s leading RISC-V solutions in a variety of form factors for customers spanning data center to edge markets. Our valued partnership with Esperanto will help us continue to innovate in our HPC and AI solution designs and keep pace with the growing demand for advancements in generative AI, machine learning, and data analytics.”

“At E4, we are seeing significant interest among our customer base in technical solutions based on RISC-V,” said Cosimo Gianfreda, CEO at E4 Computer Engineering. “Our partnership with Esperanto enables us to bring the latest in RISC-V-based AI and HPC acceleration into systems that we deliver to the most advanced enterprises, universities and centers for advanced research and computing.”

“MEGWARE delivers high-performance computers to research institutes, universities, and industrial and business customers throughout Europe,” said Axel Auweter, CTO at MEGWARE GmbH. “With the growth of RISC-V in the European HPC space, we are excited about our partnership with Esperanto which will enable us to bring AI and HPC acceleration based on RISC-V to the public and industrial customers that we serve.”

“Elematec delivers products and services to a broad set of customers across digital electronics, the automotive industry and industrial and home segments,” said Akira Yokode, CEO and Chairman at Elematec. “We see great opportunities for RISC-V AI acceleration across our broad customer base, and we are very enthusiastic about partnering with Esperanto Technologies to address these opportunities through our multi-pronged business model.”

About Esperanto Technologies:

Esperanto Technologies develops massively parallel, high-performance, energy-efficient computing solutions for Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning and massively parallel general purpose workloads, based on the open standard RISC-V instruction set architecture. Esperanto is headquartered in Mountain View, California with additional engineering sites in Portland, Oregon; Austin, Texas; Barcelona, Spain; and Belgrade, Serbia. For more information, please visit https://www.dev.esperanto.ai/

by Craig Cochran

Esperanto Technologies Launches General Purpose SDK Enabling Customers to Accelerate Parallelized HPC Workloads

Customers Can Now Directly Program ET-SoC-1 using Standard C or C++ to Accelerate Non-AI Workloads Using Over 1,000 64-bit RISC Cores on a Single Chip

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., May 1, 2023 – Esperanto Technologies™, the leading developer of high performance, energy-efficient artificial intelligence (AI) solutions based on the RISC-V instruction set, today introduced a new software development kit (SDK) that extends support beyond AI inference to a broader range of general purpose, high-performance computing (HPC) and mixed HPC plus AI use cases. The new SDK complements Esperanto’s existing AI-centric software stack to enable direct programming of each of ET-SoC-1’s 1,000+ 64-bit RISC-V CPUs and their accompanying vector/tensor units for massively parallel computation.

“One of Esperanto’s key strengths in the AI acceleration market segment is that we use standard 64-bit RISC-V cores as the basis for our compute fabric, rather than overly specialized hardware. Many customers are keenly interested in directly programming these cores in addition to using our ML software stack to accelerate machine learning workloads,” said Art Swift, president and CEO at Esperanto Technologies. “We are excited to make this SDK available so that customers can bring their own parallel workloads to ET-SoC-1 and take advantage of its 1,000+ RISC-V cores for massive parallelism.”

Esperanto’s General Purpose SDK enables the direct programming of all of ET-SoC-1’s 64-bit RISC-V cores and their attached vector/tensor units to accelerate mathematical computation. This makes ET-SoC-1 ideal for accelerating digital signal processing and other highly parallel workloads. Customers can also combine machine learning and general purpose workloads on the same ET-SoC-1 chip, enabling pre- and post-processing of AI workload data on the same device.

The General Purpose SDK is incorporated into Esperanto’s on-prem and Cloud Access evaluation systems, along with Esperanto’s current machine learning (ML) SDK, and a suite of performance analysis tools and pre-integrated models for fast experimentation, benchmarking and development. Esperanto evaluation servers deliver high performance combined with high energy efficiency and low total cost of ownership (TCO). Available in a standard 2U-high form factor, each Esperanto evaluation server includes dual Xeon host processors and either 8 or 16 ET-SoC-1 PCIe cards. Each Esperanto PCIe card has over 1,000 64-bit RISC-V CPUs with attached vector/tensor units, delivering up to over 16,000 RISC-V CPUs per server. Esperanto’s evaluation servers enable customers to obtain performance and power data from running a variety of industry standard AI models, including Generative AI, as well as the ability to bring their own models and data.

To request additional details and pricing, please visit esperanto.ai/technology/#eap.

About Esperanto Technologies:

Esperanto Technologies develops massively parallel, high-performance, energy-efficient computing solutions for Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning and massively parallel general purpose workloads, based on the open standard RISC-V instruction set architecture. Esperanto is headquartered in Mountain View, California with additional engineering sites in Portland, Oregon; Austin, Texas; Barcelona, Spain; and Belgrade, Serbia. For more information, please visit https://www.dev.esperanto.ai/

by Craig Cochran

Esperanto Technologies Launches New Cloud Access Program to Broaden Access to its Massively Parallel, Low Power RISC-V Solutions

New Offering Serves Growing Customer Interest and Complements Current System Shipments

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., April 24, 2023 – Esperanto Technologies™, the leading developer of high performance, energy-efficient artificial intelligence solutions based on the RISC-V instruction set, today announced the availability of a new cloud-based program that expands access to the company’s fully configured evaluation servers featuring its industry leading ET-SoC-1 compute accelerators.

Esperanto has been shipping fully configured evaluation servers globally for on-premises evaluations, becoming one of the first companies in the industry to deliver massively parallel, low-power RISC-V based systems directly to customers. To address increasing market interest, the company is now expanding access to the same fully configured evaluation servers to a broader set of customers and developers via the cloud.

To request additional details and pricing, please visit www.esperanto.ai/contact.

“With the support of our expanding network of partners, Esperanto has been shipping evaluation systems to customers in the U.S., Asia and Europe since last year. Our new cloud evaluation service offers remote access to the same hardware and software stacks as the on-prem evaluation systems, enabling us to serve more customers in a broader range of markets more quickly,” said Art Swift, president and CEO at Esperanto Technologies. “As demand for alternatives to existing higher cost, higher power offerings accelerates, we are ramping availability to serve those customers and speed their transition to RISC-V.”

Esperanto’s AI evaluation servers deliver high performance combined with high energy efficiency and low total cost of ownership (TCO). With a 2U-high form factor that slides into standard datacenter racks, each Esperanto server comes with dual Xeon host processors and either 8 or 16 ET-SoC-1 cards. Each card has over 1,000 64-bit RISC-V CPUs with attached vector/tensor units, delivering up to over 16,000 CPUs per server. A fully configured datacenter rack with 20 Esperanto servers can deliver up to ~320,000 64-bit RISC-V CPUs.

Esperanto’s evaluation servers enable customers to obtain performance and power data from running a variety of industry standard AI models including generative AI, transformers, computer vision models and recommendation systems, as well as bring their own models and data.

About Esperanto Technologies:

Esperanto Technologies develops massively parallel, high-performance, energy-efficient computing solutions for Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning and massively parallel general purpose workloads, based on the open standard RISC-V instruction set architecture. Esperanto is headquartered in Mountain View, California with additional engineering sites in Portland, Oregon; Austin, Texas; Barcelona, Spain; and Belgrade, Serbia. For more information, please visit https://www.dev.esperanto.ai/

by Craig Cochran

Esperanto Technologies Announces RISC-V Industry Milestone Of Generative AI Models Running on ET-SoC-1; Access to be Made Available to the RISC-V Research Community

Initial Work Includes Running a Range of Large Language Models,
Including Meta’s Open Pre-Trained Transformer Generative AI Model,
Running as Low as 25W for AI Inferencing on ET-SoC-1

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., April 19, 2023 – Esperanto Technologies^™, the leading developer of high performance, energy-efficient artificial intelligence solutions based on the RISC-V instruction set, today announced that it has ported and is running a range of Generative AI models on its low power RISC-V hardware. Esperanto plans to provide access to researchers in the RISC-V community as part of the company’s mission to help “democratize AI” for the broader industry and help accelerate development of Generative AI technology on RISC-V.

Researchers interested in obtaining more information can contact Esperanto at www.esperanto.ai/contact.

This development is part of Esperanto’s strategy to extend the benefits of RISC-V technology in AI and general-purpose applications from cloud to edge. Areas of focus for Esperanto’s Generative AI efforts include use cases for large language models (LLMs) where using low power hardware with improved total cost of ownership (TCO) compared to existing offerings are key.

In particular, several versions of Meta’s Open Pre-Trained Transformer (OPT) model are now running on Esperanto’s hardware at multiple precision levels and context sizes with power levels as low as 25W per chip for inferencing. The rapid porting and bring-up of the OPT models onto ET-SoC-1 silicon were enabled by Esperanto’s machine learning software development kit, which is currently in use by the company’s commercial customers. Researchers who are granted access to Esperanto’s solutions for R&D purposes will be required to comply with Meta’s open-source license as well as other program terms.

“Generative AI is one of the latest advancements in machine learning, and we are pleased to contribute elements of our efforts in the area of large language models to the RISC-V research community,” said Art Swift, president and CEO at Esperanto Technologies.

“Penguin Computing is proud to be a strategic partner of Esperanto, helping to accelerate the deployment of high performance, low power Generative AI solutions,” said Thierry Pellegrino, president of Penguin Solutions and senior vice president of Intelligent Platform Solutions at Smart Global Holdings. “We are excited to be working with Esperanto to extend the deployment of its RISC-V solutions to a broader set of customers that are searching for low power AI inference solutions and reduced total cost of ownership.”

“The growing interest in RISC-V signals an important inflection point for the semiconductor industry. This development in the area of Generative AI will further accelerate the evaluation of RISC-V by researchers looking for breakthroughs in this exciting field, and by developers seeking to increase their competitive differentiation beyond what existing platforms can provide,” said Ben Bajarin, CEO and principal analyst at Creative Strategies.

“RISC-V offers unparalleled opportunities for collaboration and customization, making it ideally suited for this next wave of AI innovation,” said Calista Redmond, CEO of RISC-V International. “Esperanto is one of the companies leading the charge in this space, pushing the limits of performance and power-efficiency to make Generative AI development more accessible.”

For commercial customers, Esperanto is currently shipping AI evaluation servers which deliver high performance combined with high energy efficiency and low TCO. Available in a standard 2U-high form factor, each Esperanto evaluation server includes dual Xeon host processors and either 8 or 16 ET-SoC-1 PCIe cards. Each Esperanto PCIe card has over 1,000 64-bit RISC-V CPUs with attached vector/tensor units, delivering up to 16,000 RISC-V CPUs per server. Esperanto’s evaluation servers enable customers to obtain performance and power data from running a variety of industry standard AI models, as well as the ability to bring their own models and data.

About Esperanto Technologies:

Esperanto Technologies develops massively parallel, high-performance, energy-efficient computing solutions for Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning and massively parallel general purpose workloads, based on the open standard RISC-V instruction set architecture. Esperanto is headquartered in Mountain View, California with additional engineering sites in Portland, Oregon; Austin, Texas; Barcelona, Spain; and Belgrade, Serbia. For more information, please visit https://www.dev.esperanto.ai/

by Craig Cochran

Esperanto Technologies’ Massively Parallel RISC-V AI Inferencing Solution Now in Initial Evaluations

Delivering Industry-Leading Energy Efficiency, Esperanto’s ML Inference Accelerator
Is Designed to be the Highest Performance Commercial RISC-V AI Chip

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., April 20, 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 initial evaluations for its ET-SoC-1 AI inference accelerator are underway with lead customers. Additional slots are available to qualified customers who have an interest in AI inferencing accelerators for datacenter applications.

To inquire about the evaluation program, please visit esperanto.ai/technology/#eap.

“Our data science team was very impressed with the initial evaluation of Esperanto’s AI acceleration solution,” said Dr. Patrick Bangert, vice president of Artificial Intelligence at Samsung SDS. “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.”

Esperanto’s evaluation program enables users to obtain performance data from running a variety of off-the-shelf AI models including recommendation, transformer and visual networks on the ET-SoC-1 AI Inference Accelerator. Users can set options including model and dataset selection, data type, batch size and compute configuration of up to 32 clusters containing over 1,000 RISC-V cores with ML-optimized tensor units. Customers can run many inference jobs, with the results provided in detailed histogram reports as well as fine-grain visibility into silicon performance.

“Esperanto has made very impressive progress and is now providing customers evaluation access to their RISC-V hardware and software running off-the-shelf AI models with strong performance and efficiency. This really shows the company’s confidence in their first multi-core solution,” said Karl Freund, founder and principal analyst at Cambrian-AI Research. “In addition, because Esperanto’s chip is RISC-V-based, it has the programming tools and software stack to more easily adapt to new AI workloads, alongside non-AI workloads, all running on the same silicon. This step forward is another very strong indicator of the bright future of RISC-V.”

“Esperanto has achieved an industry first by demonstrating its massively parallel RISC-V silicon running a variety of real-world AI workloads,” said Richard Wawrzyniak, principal analyst at Semico Research. “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.”

“Harnessing the power of over 1,000 RISC-V processors is a major accomplishment, and we are very pleased with the results which validate our initial projections of performance and efficiency,” said Art Swift, president and CEO of Esperanto Technologies. “We look forward to extending access to a broader range of qualified companies, as we accelerate our RISC-V roadmap efforts with a growing number of strategic partners for applications spanning 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 shared high performance memory architecture. Designed to meet the performance, power and total cost of ownership (TCO) requirements of large-scale datacenter customers, Esperanto’s 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 additional engineering sites in Portland, Oregon; Austin, Texas; Barcelona, Spain; and Belgrade, Serbia. For more information, please visit https://www.dev.esperanto.ai/

by Craig Cochran

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.dev.esperanto.ai/

by Craig Cochran

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/

by Craig Cochran