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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.
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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, Fort Ross Ventures.