Ventana Micro Systems Inc. Announces Second Generation of Veyron V2 RISC-V Processors

Ventana Micro Systems Inc. Announces Second Generation of Veyron V2 RISC-V Processors

Ventana Micro Systems Inc. has unveiled the latest iteration of its Veyron family of RISC-V processors. The new Veyron V2 is currently the most high-performance RISC-V processor available and is being offered in the form of chiplets and IP. Balaji Baktha, the Founder and CEO of Ventana, will be delivering a keynote speech at the RISC-V Summit North America 2023 in Santa Clara, California, where he will share more details about the Veyron V2.

"Veyron V2 represents a significant advancement in our mission to lead the industry in high-performance RISC-V CPUs that are ready for widespread customer adoption," said Balaji Baktha. "It demonstrates our commitment to customer innovation, workload acceleration, and overall optimization to achieve the best performance per watt per dollar. The V2 enhancements will drive innovation across various sectors, including data centers, automotive, 5G, AI, and client applications."

Key V2 Enhancements

  • Significant Increase in Performance and Efficiency: The Veyron V2 boasts a 40% improvement in performance, thanks to microarchitecture enhancements, a superior high-performance processor fabric architecture, an enhanced cache hierarchy, and the addition of a high-performance vector processor.
  • Ecosystem: The Rise of RISE: The V2 is supported by the RISE ecosystem initiative, which enables the quick deployment of open, scalable, and versatile solutions.
  • Lower Development Costs and Time to Market: The Veyron V2 chiplet features the industry-leading UCIe chiplet interconnect. Chiplet-based solutions offer advantages in unit economics, accelerating time to market by up to two years and reducing development costs by up to 75%. These solutions also provide better unit economics by optimizing compute, IO, and memory.
  • Domain Specific Acceleration: Ventana's Domain Specific Accelerator technology, integrated with the Veyron V2 processor pipeline, enhances workload efficiency across the entire data center infrastructure while enabling customer innovation and differentiation.

"In the ever-changing landscape of the tech industry, one constant remains: performance per watt per socket per dollar drives innovation," said Patrick Moorhead, Founder and Chief Analyst at Moor Insights & Strategy. "Ultimately, this equation needs to extend to the rack. Ventana's latest V2 offering not only aligns with this principle but could set a new benchmark for high-performance computing."

Ventana provides a Software Development Kit (SDK) that includes a comprehensive set of software building blocks already proven on Ventana's RISC-V platform.

Veyron V2 Features

  • Fifteen wide, aggressive out-of-order pipeline
  • 3.6 GHz
  • 4 nm process technology
  • 32 cores per cluster
  • High core count multi-cluster scalability up to 192 cores
  • 128 MB 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

Ventana will be showcasing its products at its booth in the RISC-V Summit main exhibit hall. Additionally, Greg Favor, co-founder, CTO, and Chief Architect at Ventana, will be delivering a detailed technical presentation on Veyron V2.