Technology at Ventana
Highest Performance RISC-V Core
Performance on par with high-end Arm® and x86 datacenter cores.
Easily portable across leading fabs and process nodes.
Chiplet-based Rapid Productization
End-to-End solution for rapid productization.
Significant reduction in time to market and cost over prevailing IP model.
Flexible multi-vendor product integrations where each chiplet can target the most optimal process node.
Extensible ISA
Customers can own their innovation via custom instructions.
Multi-chiplet heterogenous architecture enables easy integration of specialized accelerators.
Extensive Partner Ecosystem
Ecosystem of strategic IP and SoC chiplet providers to deliver turnkey solutions.
About Us
Founded in 2018
Founding team includes industry veterans with a proven track record of delivering data center class processors.
Experienced Team
Over 20-years’ average experience.
Worked on all major ISAs including x86, Arm, Power, MIPS, and SPARC.
RISC-V Leadership
Established significant first mover advantage and beachhead in high-performance RISC-V.
Heading key technical committees within RISC-V International.
Founding Team
Exec Team
Balaji Baktha
Greg Favor
Ventana in the news
Ventana Micro Systems Inc. Joins RISC-V International’s Board of Directors
December 7, 2021
Ventana’s founder and CEO, Balaji Baktha, will be joining the RISC-V Board of Directors and co-founder and CTO, Greg Favor, will be joining the RISC-V Technical Steering Committee (TSC).
Ventana Micro Systems is listed in the 10 Hottest Semiconductor Startup Companies of 2021
November 25, 2021
10 Hottest Semiconductor Startup Companies of 2021. 10 semicon startup companies, by CRN as the hottest of 2021.
Ventana Micro Systems Inc., the RISC-V Performance Leader, Raises $38 Million in Series B Funding
September 1, 2021
Ventana is designing a range of data center class compute chiplets leveraging the open RISC-V instruction set architecture.
RISC-V International Unveils Fast Track Architecture Extension Process and Ratifies ZiHintPause Extension
February 23, 2021
Greg Favor, Co-founder and CTO of Ventana Micro Systems, is quoted in the RISC-V press release above.
2020 RISC-V Top Technical Contributor Awards
December 15, 2020
Congratulations to our very own Greg Favor for receiving one of the 2020 RISC-V Top Technical Contributor awards.
Ventana Starts India Engineering Centers
October 21, 2020
Ventana Micro Systems starts operations in Bengaluru, India and Pune, India.
