Ventana Micro Systems, a start-up based in Cupertino, California, unveiled the second generation of its Veyron family of RISC-V processors.
The new Veyron V2, which claims to be the highest performance RISC-V processor available currently, features an UCIe chiplet interconnect. The company says its Veyron V2’s chiplet-based solutions provide advantages in unit economics, accelerating time to market by up to two years and reducing development costs by up to 75%.
“Veyron V2 represents a leap forward in our quest to lead the industry in high-performance RISC-V CPUs that are ready for rapid customer adoption,” said Balaji Baktha, Founder and CEO of Ventana. “It substantiates our commitment to customer innovation, workload acceleration, and overall optimization to achieve best in class performance per Watt per dollar. V2 enhancements unleash innovation across data center, automotive, 5G, AI, and client applications.”
Veyron V2 Features
- Fifteen wide, aggressive out-of-order pipeline
- 3.6GHz
- 4nm process technology
- 32 cores per cluster
- High core count multi-cluster scalability up to 192 cores
- 128MB of shared L3 cache per cluster
- 512b vector unit
- Ventana AI matrix extensions
- Provided with server-class IOMMU and Advanced Interrupt Architecture (AIA) system IP
- Advanced side channel attack mitigations
- Comprehensive RAS features
- Top-down performance tuning methodology
- SDK released with necessary software already ported to Veyron
- Veyron V2 Development Platform available
