Esperanto Pivots to HPC and Generative AI - EE Times

Esperanto, an AI chip startup, has shifted its focus from recommendation acceleration to large language models (LLMs) and high-performance computing (HPC) by releasing a general-purpose software development kit and PCIe accelerator card for its first generation RISC-V data center accelerator chip. The company believes its chip is well-suited for LLM inference and aims to compete with CPUs rather than Nvidia GPUs for this application.

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Posted 8/22/2023, 2:01:15 PM