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As noted by Kleiner Perkins partner Mamoon Hamid, the migration to RISC-V is in full flight. Kleiner Perkins, along with Fidelity and Mayfield, is a backer of RISC-V upstart Akeana, which has officially launched itself after exiting the stealth mode.
Akeana marked this occasion by unveiling RISC-V IPs for microcontrollers, Android clusters, artificial intelligence (AI) vector cores and subsystems, and compute clusters for networking and data centers. Its 100 Series configurable processors come with 32-bit RISC-V cores and support applications spanning from MCUs to edge gateways.
Akeana’s 1000 Series processor line includes 64-bit RISC-V cores and an MMU to support rich operating systems as well as in-order or out-of-order pipelines, multi-threading, vector extension, hypervisor extension and other extensions that are part of recent and upcoming RISC-V profiles.
Next, its 5000 Series features 64-bit RISC-V cores optimized for demanding applications in data centers and cloud infrastructure. These processors are compatible with the Akeana 1000 Series but offer much higher single-thread performance.
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Three RISC-V processors come alongside an SoC IP suite. Source: Akeana
Akeana feels especially confident in data center processors while having acquired the same team that designed Marvell’s ThunderX2 server chips. “Our team has a proven track record of designing world-class server chips, and we are now applying that expertise to the broader semiconductor market as we formally go to market,” said Rabin Sugumar, Akeana CEO.
Besides RISC-V processors, Akeana offers a collection of IP blocks needed to create processor system-on-chips (SoCs). That includes coherent cluster cache, I/O MMU, and interrupt controller IPs. The company also provides scalable mesh and coherence hub IP compatible with AMBA CHI to build large coherent compute subsystems for data centers and other use cases.
Akeana, another RISC-V startup challenging the semiconductor industry status quo, has been officially launched three years after its foundation. And it has raised over $100 million from A-list investors like Kleiner Perkins, Mayfield, and Fidelity.
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