RISC-V arrives in data centre league

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Ventana unveils highest-performance RISC-V processor to date at 3.6 GHz in 5nm

eenewseurope.com, Dec. 13, 2022 – 

Started little more than a decade ago as an open-source experiment, the RISC-V community has continuously expanded both the ecosystem and the technology of the RISC-V processor. California-based Ventana Micro Systems has now catapulted it into the pinnacle of processor technology, the data centre class.

For its now-introduced Veyron family, Ventana aims to make the RISC-V architecture native to the data centre. The Veyron V1 is the first member of the new family and according to its creators the most powerful RISC-V processor available today. It will be offered in the form of high-performance chiplets and IP. Ventana Founder and CEO Balaji Baktha made the public announcement during his RISC-V Summit keynote.

The V1 offers single-thread performance competitive with the latest established processors for data centre, automotive, 5G, AI and client applications. The Veyron V1s efficient microarchitecture also enables the highest single-socket performance among competing architectures.

The Veyron V1s performance combined with RISC-Vs open and extensible architecture enables customer innovation and workload optimization. Ventana already sees the V1s potential as the basis for extending Moores Law. This potential, the vendor says, opens the door to further efficiency gains through domain-specific acceleration. This would make it possible to address emerging energy and thermal challenges in data centres.

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