Ventana's 192-Core RISC-V CPU Takes Aim At AMD Epyc Genoa And Bergamo

The Ventana Veryon V2 RISC-V CPU.

The age of full-fledged RISC-V data center CPUs is nearly upon us, as Ventana's 192-core Veryon V2 is coming in 2024 (via ServeTheHome). Ventana, founded in 2018, claims the Veryon V2 edges ahead of AMD's Genoa and Bergamo Epyc CPUs. However, the company foresees much bigger victories down the line with its domain-specific accelerator (or DSA) chiplets, which Ventana forecasts will deliver large performance boosts compared to typical CPUs.

RISC-V is an open standard (previously open source) CPU architecture that has been used in many applications but is just now popping up in servers. The Veryon V2 will be Ventana's first server CPUs to market, as the Veryon V1 has seemingly been canceled and skipped over.