Akeana, a start-up based in Santa Clara, California, emerged from stealth to unveil its RISC-V portfolio. The company has raised over $100 million in capital from prominent investors like Kleiner Perkins, Mayfield, and Fidelity. Formed by the team behind Marvell’s ThunderX2 server chips, Akeana aims to challenge the dominance of legacy vendors and architectures such as Arm by offering customizable processors that exceed current performance benchmarks. The company has introduced a comprehensive range of IP solutions designed to cater to various workloads and applications, with a focus on equitable licensing options.
Akeana’s portfolio includes:
- Akeana 100 Series: Configurable 32-bit RISC-V processors designed for a wide range of applications, from embedded microcontrollers to edge gateways and personal computing devices.
- Akeana 1000 Series: 64-bit RISC-V processors with features like MMU, multi-threading, and AI computation extensions, ideal for rich operating systems and low-power applications.
- Akeana 5000 Series: High-performance 64-bit RISC-V processors optimized for demanding applications in next-gen devices, data centers, and cloud infrastructure, offering industry-leading single-thread performance.
- Processor System IP: Includes essential IP blocks for creating processor SoCs, such as Coherent Cluster Cache and I/O MMU, as well as Scalable Mesh and Coherence Hub IPs for large coherent compute subsystems.
- AI Matrix Computation Engine: A specialized engine designed to accelerate AI by offloading Matrix Multiply operations, configurable for various data types and optimized for data sharing.
