Esperanto is a startup combining the two hottest processor technologies: AI acceleration and RISC-V. This business plan, along with an all-star engineering team led by CEO and RISC pioneer Dave Ditzel, helped the company close a recent Series B round of $58 million—enough to bring its first processor to market. Esperanto completed the RTL for this product in September, so we expect samples to arrive in 2H19 followed by production around mid-2020. Given the long lead time, the company is withholding details, but it began the unwrapping process by disclosing the microarchitecture of its ET-Maxion CPU. To read more, please visit: http://www.linleygroup.com/newsletters/newsletter_detail.php?num=5949. Copyright © 2019 The Linley Group
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