Esperanto’s ET-SoC-1 features over a thousand 64-bit RISC-V vector/tensor cores on a single 7nm chip. This product started shipping to customers in 2022. This presentation will discuss the architecture of the ET-SoC-1 and how it is incorporated into systems appropriate for data centers. This presentation will present real world results in both performance and performance per watt. We will show a system example where a single rack could hold over 300,000 RISC-V processors. The results demonstrate that one can achieve excellent results for accelerating machine learning and other applications by building on top of the general-purpose RISC-V instruction set. One does not have to resort to GPUs to get good performance per watt, RISC-V is a better alternative. This talk will also discuss Esperanto’s roadmap, which will incorporate chiplet inter-operability and much higher performance, improved performance per watt, and larger number of cores per package.
