Ventana Micro Systems, a company developing high-performance data center class RISC-V processors, this week announced that the company has raised $38 million in its Series B funding round.
The round was led by Dr. Sehat Sutardja and Weili Dai (founders of Marvell Technology Group) and other prominent semiconductor investors in partnership with Series A investors, which include a notable strategic partner, bringing Ventana’s total funding to $53 million.
Ventana was founded in 2018 by Balaji Baktha and Greg Favor, industry veterans with a proven track record of delivering high-performance processors.
Ventana offers data center class high-performance RISC-V CPUs with extensible instruction set capability delivered in the form of multi-core chiplets. The company also offers a customizable SoC chiplet enabling hyperscalers and others to achieve rapid productization while being able to innovate and differentiate. Ventana’s compute chiplets are designed to deliver best-in-class single thread performance optimized for cloud, enterprise data center, 5G, edge compute and automotive applications. Ventana’s unique microarchitectural innovations make its design highly portable across different fabs and process nodes.
Ventana’s modular, scalable chiplet-based product strategy enables significant reduction in development time and cost compared to the prevailing IP model. While Ventana’s compute chiplets maximize performance by targeting cutting edge process geometries, customers can implement their unique SoC chiplet silicon in the most optimal process node for the target application. To ensure interoperability, Ventana offers a parallel die-to-die (D2D) solution capable of very low latencies, high bandwidth and lowest power. The D2D solution is compliant with the OCP Open Domain-Specific Architecture (ODSA) physical interface standard.
Balaji Baktha, Founder and CEO, Ventana
Nearly half of compute spend is moving away from general purpose processors in favor of infrastructure compute and domain specific accelerators. Ventana is perfectly positioned to capitalize on this trend with our high-performance cores built on the extensible RISC-V architecture, and our chiplet-based rapid productization approach.
