RISC-V processor boasts 40 percent performance improvement

Ventana Micro Systems Inc. announced the second generation of its Veyron family of RISC-V processors. The new Veyron V2 is the highest-performance RISC-V processor available today and is offered in the form of chiplets and IP.

Ventana provides a Software Development Kit (SDK) which includes a comprehensive set of software building blocks already proven on Ventana’s RISC-V platform.

Veyron V2 Features:

• Fifteen wide, aggressive out-of-order pipeline
• 3.6GHz
• 4nm process technology
• 32 cores per cluster
• High core count multi-cluster scalability up to 192 cores
• 128MB of shared L3 cache per cluster
• 512b vector unit
• Ventana AI matrix extensions
• Provided with server-class IOMMU and Advanced Interrupt Architecture (AIA) system IP
• Advanced side channel attack mitigations
• Comprehensive RAS features
• Top-down performance tuning methodology
• SDK released with necessary software already ported to Veyron
• Veyron V2 Development Platform available