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Esperanto Tech

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Esperanto Technologies developed the ET-SoC-1, a RISC-V based inference chip with over a thousand low-power cores, along with AI/HPC compute servers for generative AI inference, high-performance computing, and mixed AI+HPC workloads. The company has ceased operations and its IP was acquired by Nekko.ai.

Founders & leadership

DDDave Ditzel
Dave DitzelFounder and CTO2022–2025Dave Ditzel founded Esperanto Technologies, which developed RISC-V-based inference chips, and previously founded and led Transmeta Corporation, a semiconductor company focused on low-power x86 microprocessors. He was also a co-founder of ThruChip Communications and co-authored a foundational paper on reduced instruction set computing with David Patterson.

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Frequently asked questions

What does Esperanto Tech do?
Esperanto Technologies developed the ET-SoC-1, a RISC-V based inference chip with over a thousand low-power cores, along with AI/HPC compute servers for generative AI inference, high-performance computing, and mixed AI+HPC workloads. The company has ceased operations and its IP was acquired by Nekko.ai.
Who founded Esperanto Tech?
Esperanto Tech was founded by Dave Ditzel.
Who are Esperanto Tech's investors?
Esperanto Tech's investors include Comet Labs, R136 Ventures, Western Digital Capital.