EETimes' Nitin Dahad sat down with Ventana founder and CEO Balaji Baktha to discuss Ventana’s high-performance RISC-V Veyron V2 platform shipping in 2025 and being adopted by leading hyperscalers and HPC customers.

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WATCH: At the RISC-V Summit in Paris Ventana’s Paul Donahue was recognized for the specification ratification for Debug 1.0 (Sdext, Sdtrig). Congrats Paul!. #RISCV.

WATCH: We’re proud to share that Greg Favor, co-founder and CTO of Ventana Micro, was recognized at the RISC-V Summit in Paris for the ratification of the Privileged Architecture extensions Priv 1.13 (Sm1p13, Ss1p13). Congrats Greg!.

If you missed the keynote from Greg Favor, CTO of Ventana, and Travis Lanier, Chief Product Officer, at RISC-V Summit Europe, now’s your chance to catch up. “Real Systems. Real Traction. The Next Chapter in High‑Performance RISC‑V in Data Centers.”.

WATCH: Real-world RISC-V performance. Check out Ventana’s latest demo from RISC-V Summit: “Running Data Center and AI Inference Applications on the Ventana Veyron Thunderhill FPGA Platform.”.

We just wanted to raise some awareness for RISE (RISC-V Software Ecosystem) and recent developments. Read more: .

We’re pleased to see our colleagues at SiFive collaborating with Red Hat to make first-class Linux support on RISC-V more accessible. A few months ago, Red Hat laid out why RISC-V matters “to the far edge and beyond,” read more.

ACPI 6.6 is here—and it’s a big step forward for the RISC-V ecosystem. The new specification adds native support for multiple APICs and finer-grained memory attributes. Explore the full spec from the UEFI Forum for the details:

What a week in Paris! RISC-V Summit Europe brought together the builders pushing open compute into production. Check out the Ventana booth and our keynote “Real Systems. Real Traction. The Next Chapter in High-Performance RISC-V in Data Centers.”

On opening day of RISC-V Summit Paris, Ventana founder and CEO Balaji Baktha deliver his keynote “Real Systems. Real Traction. The Next Chapter in High‑Performance RISC‑V in Data Centers.” He’ll outline how hyperscalers and OEMs building on Ventana.

RISC-V Summit in Paris is only two weeks away! . Join us in Paris, May 12–16, to hear Ventana CEO and founder Balaji Baktha deliver a keynote on the rapid momentum of the RISC-V ecosystem. Let’s connect. Reach out at info@ventanamicro.com or stop by our booth.

Excitement is building for RISC-V Summit Europe 2025, happening May 12–16 in Paris. Ventana CEO and founder Balaji Baktha will deliver a keynote exploring how this global movement—and why 2025 is shaping up to be a milestone year.

Join us in Paris at RISC-V Summit Europe 2025, May 12–16, to hear Ventana CEO and founder Balaji Baktha deliver a keynote on the rapid momentum of the RISC-V ecosystem. Reach out at info@ventanamicro.com or stop by our booth. Register here: 

Anyone following RISC-V should catch this conversation with Isaac Chute, Director of Software Ecosystem at RISC-V International. 🎧 Listen here: #RISCV #OpenHardware #HighPerformanceComputing #AI #HPC #VentanaMicro.

Join us at the RISC-V Summit Europe 2025 in Paris May 12-16! You won’t want to miss the keynote by Ventana’s CEO and founder detailing the massive strides made by the RISC-V ecosystem — and Ventana. #RISCV. Learn more and register:

We're proud to share that Ventana has again been recognized by Forbes as one of America's Best Startup Employers for 2025. Come join our team:

WATCH: After years of hard work, the ACPI specification is now updated to support RISC-V in server-class platforms! Check out the "RISC-V ACPI Is Ready for Server Platforms” presentation from Sunil V L and Himanshu Chauhan both from Ventana.

WATCH: How is RISC-V shaping the future of High Performance Computing (HPC)? Discover the answer during this panel discussion. Don’t miss this opportunity to learn from the pioneers driving innovation in HPC.

Check out Balaji Baktha’s short update at the RISC-V Summit on Ventana’s high-performance RISC-V Veyron V2 platform shipping this year and being adopted by leading hyperscalers and HPC customers. #RISCV #RISCVEverywhere #Ventana

WATCH: The RISE 2024 End of Year Ecosystem Update webinar is now available! 2024 was a milestone year for the global RISC-V ecosystem.