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March 05, 2024
Semidynamics Unveils Revolutionary Configurator Tool for Custom RISC-V Cores Design in Spain

In an innovative leap forward, Semidynamics in Spain has launched a groundbreaking Configurator tool that revolutionizes the way developers design RISC-V cores. This web-based tool, a first in offering full customization of RISC-V IP cores, allows for intricate core design configuration via a user-friendly interface, promising a new era of microprocessor development.

March 05, 2024
Semidynamics puts the power of full core customisation into hands of customers

Semidynamics, the European RISC-V custom core specialist, has released its new tool called ‘Configurator’ that puts the power of Semidynamics’ full customisation of a RISC-V processor core in the hands of the customer. It uses dozens of blocks that have already been verified by Semidynamics so that the final core is therefore also verified. This gives customers an incredible fast time to a workable core design in a matter of a few hours from the thousands of possible variants.

January 31, 2024
Navigating the RISC-V Revolution in Europe

Collaborative activity in Europe last year underscored this trend. For example, Semidynamics partnered with Signature IP to produce a fully tested RISC-V, multicore environment and coherent hub interface (CHI) interconnect for the development of state-of-the-art chip designs. Semidynamics’ new RISC-V Tensor Unit combines the company’s core vector unit and an array unit, eliminating the need to purchase separate NPUs, GPUs or additional components.

January 17, 2024
YorChip, Inc. announces its first Chiplet for Edge AI applications with IP licensed from Semidynamics, the leader in RISC-V IP based in Barcelona

YorChip, Inc. announces its first Chiplet for Edge AI applications with IP licensed from Semidynamics, the leader in RISC-V IP based in Barcelona

YorChip Edge AI Compute Chiplet with support for UCIe and 10-100+ Int8-TOPS

November 30, 2023
RISC-V Summit Buzz – Semidynamics Founder and CEO Roger Espasa Introduces Extreme Customization

Founded in 2016 and based in Barcelona, Spain, Semidynamics™ is the only provider of fully customizable RISC-V processor IP.  The company delivers high bandwidth, high performance cores with vector units and tensor units targeted at machine learning and AI applications. There were some recent announcements from Semidynamics leading up to the RISC-V Summit that extend the company’s focus on customization. I had a chance to meet with the company’s CEO at the Summit to get the back-story on what the announcement really means. Read on to get the whole story about how Semidynamics founder and CEO, Roger Espasa, introduces extreme customization.

November 16, 2023
Semidynamics and Arteris Combine to Push AI and RISC-V Beyond

Arteris, Inc. and Semidynamics are collaborating to enhance the next generation of electronic components for artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML) and high-performance computing (HPC) applications. The agreement sees the interoperability between Semidynamics' Atrevido and Avispado 64-bit RISC-V processor IP cores and Arteris’ Ncore cache coherent network-on-chip (NoC) system IP.

November 10, 2023
EPI announces the successful bring-up of the EPAC1.5 acceleration chip

The European Processor Initiative (EPI), a project with 30 partners from 10 European countries, with the goal of achieving Europe’s independence in HPC chip technologies and infrastructure, has announced the successful Manufacturing and Silicon Demonstration of its EPAC Accelerator chip version 1.5.

November 08, 2023
RISC-V Summit 2023: Embedded Editor Report

Also today, Semidynamics announced the launch of its first fully-coherent RISC-V Tensor unit that the company says will not only reduce latency, processor cycles and energy use, it will also, when married to the Vector regulators, solve the memory wall problem. Roger Espasa, CEO & Founder at Semidynamics Technology Services, said the full system is designed to be ideal for AI and machine learning embedded systems, thanks to the new Tensor unit, and the company’s customizable 64-bit cores, married to the vector regulators, Gazzillion data management software, and the unique architecture that brings all these units together in one piece.

November 07, 2023
Semidynamics Releases RISC-V Tensor Unit for AI

Collaboration with Signature IP yields multicore environment and CHI interconnect customizable for performance and optimizable for efficiency.
Customizability and scalability are among the most common requirements of artificial intelligence and machine learning applications. AI and ML regularly involve complex algorithms and require specialized hardware and software optimizations that promote high performance and efficiency.

November 07, 2023
[CN] Semidynamics and Arteris collaborate to accelerate AI RISC-V system-on-chip development

California, Campbell - November 2, 2023 - Arteris, Inc. (NASDAQ: AIP) is a leading system IP provider dedicated to accelerating the creation of System-on-Chips (SoCs). Semidynamics is a fully customizable high-bandwidth and high-performance RISC-V processor IP provider. Arteris and Semidynamics announced today the establishment of a partnership to accelerate electronic product innovation for Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), and High-Performance Computing (HPC) applications.
This partnership supports the interoperability between Semidynamics' Atrevido™ and Avispado™ 64-bit RISC-V processor IP cores and Arteris' Ncore high-speed Cache Coherent Network-on-Chip (NoC) system IP. This combined solution offers interoperability to expedite the development of AI/ML and HPC designs.

November 07, 2023
[CN] Semidynamics and Arteris collaborate to accelerate AI RISC-V System-on-Chip development.

Arteris, Inc. (NASDAQ: AIP) is a leading system IP provider dedicated to accelerating the creation of System-on-Chips (SoCs). Semidynamics is a fully customizable high-bandwidth and high-performance RISC-V processor IP provider. Arteris and Semidynamics announced today the establishment of a partnership to accelerate electronic product innovation for Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), and High-Performance Computing (HPC) applications.

November 06, 2023
Arteris and Semidynamics hook up to accelerate SoC design

Arteris, a provider of system IP which accelerates SoC design, and Semidynamics, a provider of fully customisable high bandwidth and high-performance RISC-V processor IP, have partnered to accelerate electronic product innovation for AI, ML and HPC applications.
The partnership supports the interoperability between Semidynamics’ Atrevido and Avispado 64-bit RISC-V processor IP cores and Arteris’ Ncore cache coherent network-on-chip (NoC) system IP.

October 26, 2023
RISC-V Tensor unit will “supercharge AI” says Semidynamics

Based on Semidynamics’ 64bit customisable RISC-V cores, the RISC-V Tensor Unit is designed for fast AI solutions, said the company.
It can address the need for computation power in applications such as the LLaMa-2 or ChatGPT machine learning models. These consist of billions of parameters and require a large degree of computation power – in the order of several trillions of operations per second. There is also the requirement to keep energy consumption low which poses a significant challenge for hardware design, said Semidynamics. 

October 25, 2023
The Tensor Unit Enhances AI Performance And Efficiency

Semidynamics has launched the RISC-V Tensor Unit designed for high-speed AI applications, leveraging its adaptable 64-bit cores. Modern machine learning models, like LLaMa-2 or ChatGPT, boast billions of parameters and necessitate computational capabilities to tune several trillion operations every second. Balancing this immense processing demand with energy efficiency is a formidable task in hardware engineering. 

October 25, 2023
[FR] Semidynamics et SignatureIP veulent faciliter la conception de puces RISC-V multicœurs grâce à l’intégration d’un "réseau sur puce"

Il existe aujourd’hui une demande croissante pour des puces toujours plus puissantes pour des applications avancées telles que l'intelligence artificielle (IA) et l’apprentissage automatique (ML), technologies qui nécessitent souvent plusieurs cœurs sur une seule puce. Pour faciliter cette évolution en particulier pour des puces RISC-V multicœurs, les sociétés Semidynamics et SignatureIP se sont associées pour intégrer leurs IP respectives afin de fournir un environnement multicœur RISC-V entièrement testé, ainsi qu’une interconnexion CHI (Coherent Hub Interface) pour la conceptions de puces complexes.

October 10, 2023
Semidynamics and Signature IP Expand Multi-Core RISC-V and CHI Options

Two relatively new players in the CPU world, Semidynamics and Signature IP, have announced multi-core RISC-V and CHI interconnect IP for compute-intensive applications like AI/ML.
As some experts predict the end of Moore’s law, the artificial intelligence and machine learning (AL/ML) industry needs to find ways to greatly increase computing power density and efficiency. Such gains call for monolithic multi-core and chiplet architectures and improved interconnects.

October 08, 2023
Fully-Tested Multi-Core Environment for Development of RISC-V Based Chips

Semidynamics has collaborated with Californian start-up SignatureIP on the creation of a fully-tested interoperable RISC-V, multi-core environment plus CHI interconnect.
It draws on the companies’ respective customisable 64-bit RISC-V processing IP and Coherent NoC IP elements. Consequently, this will be able to help speed-up and de-risk next generation chip design projects - so that demanding artificial intelligence (AI) workloads can be dealt with. SignatureIP’s Coherent NoC IP delivers strong performance alongside inherent scalability. It supports a transport layer for chiplet communication. Semidynamics’ multi-core architecture provides an easily configurable platform for designers to work with.  

October 04, 2023
RISC-V Environment and CHI Interconnect for AI and ML Applications

Semidynamics and SignatureIP are collaborating to incorporate respected technologies for a completely assessed multi-core RISC-V environment and CHI interconnect for innovations in chip development for AI and ML applications. The solution utilizes SignatureIP’s Coherent NoC, designed to be scalable with the inclusion of a transport layer for chiplet communication and acts as an ordered file system with support for home-node resource group.

June 09, 2023
RISC-V gathers pace in Europe

The RISC-V Summit Europe brought together developers, architects, technical decision and policy makers from across European RISC-V ecosystem for the first time in the region this week.
Attendees from academia, research, SMEs, industry and open source communities  gathered in Barcelona to discuss the technologies and research shaping the future of RISC-V computing, in applications such as Automotive, High Performance Computing, AI, and Security.

June 08, 2023
Bruselas autoriza 8.100 millones en ayudas para revitalizar la industria europea de microelectrónica

La Comisión Europea ha dado este jueves luz verde al mayor proyecto europeo de interés común (IPCEI) por el que 14 países de la Unión Europea, incluido España, podrán destinar hasta 8.100 millones de euros en ayudas públicas a iniciativas para el desarrollo de microelectrónica y tecnologías de la comunicación.

June 07, 2023
What is a RISC-V vector drive and why Semidynamics’ announcement matters

Semidynamics is a European provider of RISC-V based solutions, specializing in the development of high performance cores and high bandwidth with vector drives targeting applications of machine learning and artificial intelligence. The company has just announced one of the first RISC-V vector drives of the sector. A unit of vector processing is designed to perform parallel operations on data vectors, allowing high performance for a wide range of computationally intensive applications. Think of real-time image processing, the machine learningscientific simulation and much more.

June 06, 2023
New RISC-V Vector Unit Available for AI HPC GPU Applications

Semidynamics has introduced one of the industry's first RISC-V vector units available for use in highly parallel processors such as those used in artificial intelligence (AI), high performance computing (HPC) and even graphics (if equipped with the appropriate dedicated processor ) destination IP. This announcement marks an important milestone in the development of the RISC-V ecosystem.

June 06, 2023
Newly Revealed RISC-V Vector Unit Could Be Used for AI, HPC, GPU Applications

Semidynamics has introduced one of the industry's first RISC-V vector units that could be used for highly parallel processors, such as those used for artificial intelligence (AI), high-performance computing (HPC), and even graphics processing if equipped with appropriate special-purpose IP. The announcement marks an important milestone in the development of the RISC-V ecosystem. 

June 05, 2023
Semidynamics, empresa española, muestra su monstruo «Unidad Vectorial»: 2.048 bits de cómputo por ciclo


La ISA RISC-V está de moda. Este fin de semana hemos visto cómo grandes compañías se suman a crear chips con ella, y no debería ser algo novedoso como tal, pero como se suele decir, la moda es la moda. Otras compañías con no tanto bombo y platillo llevan tiempo trabajando con esta ISA, como Semidynamics, que ha presentado su nueva Unidad Vectorial, la más grande y completa del mercado con la friolera de 2.048 bits.

June 05, 2023
The RISC-V processor received a fully customizable vector unit

The Spanish company Semidynamics shows that the open RISC-V architecture is rapidly catching up with other processor architectures that have been on the market longer. The company's latest vector unit brings a computing capacity of up to 2048 bits per clock cycle.

June 05, 2023
Unidade vectorial RISC-V recently revealed pode ser usada para aplicaciones de IA, HPC e GPU

A semi-dynamic tem introduzido uma das primarsa unidades vetoriais RISC-V do Setor que pode ser usada para procesadores highly paralelos, Como os usados para intelligencia artificial (IA), computação de alto perfomance (HPC) e even mesmo processing graphic, se equipado com IP appropriate para fins especiales . O announcement marca um marco importante no desenvolvimento do ecossistema RISC-V.

June 05, 2023
Customisable RISC-V Vector Unit is largest available, says Semidynamics

At up to 2048bits of computation per cycle, Semidynamics says that its customisable Vector Unit is the largest available in the RISC-V market today, offering “unprecedented data handling”.
At the RISC-V Summit Europe 2023 (05 to 09 June) in Barcelona, Semidynamics highlights the customisable vector unit to accompany the company’s customisable 64-bit RISC-V cores. The Vector Unit complies with the RISC-V Vector Specification 1.0 and has additional, customisable features to enhance data handling capabilities. Semidynamics claimed that together they “set a new standard for data handling both in terms of unprecedented speed and volume”.

June 02, 2023
Semidynamics announces largest, fully customisable Vector Unit in the RISC-V market, delivering up to 2048b of computation per cycle for unprecedented data handling

Semidynamics has announced its new, entirely customisable Vector Unit to go with its innovative range of fully customisable 64-bit RISC-V cores. The Vector Unit is totally compliant with the RISC-V Vector Specification 1.0 with many, additional, customisable features to provide enhanced data handling capabilities. Together they set a new standard for data handling both in terms of unprecedented speed and volume.

June 02, 2023
RISC-V Summit: Customisable vector unit

Vector unit are composed of several vector cores that perform multiple calculations in parallel.
In this case, Semidynamics’ vector core can be tailored to support FP64, FP32, FP16, BF16, INT64, INT32, INT16 or INT8 data types depending on requirements – the longest word-length implemented defines the vector core width (‘ELEN’).

June 01, 2023
Semidynamics launches configurable RISC-V vector unit

Semidynamics in Spain has developed a highly configurable out of order vector unit with a new architecture to boost performance of RISC-V processor designs, and is running a demonstration of Doom.
The Vector Unit pairs with Semidynamics’ 64bit Out-Of-Order RISC-V Atrevido core and upcoming In-Order cores. “We are launching the configurable core with the vector unit support,” Roger Esposa, CEO of SemiDynamics tells eeNews Europe.

April 18, 2023
Semidynamics : cœurs RISC-V IP entièrement personnalisables et indépendants du processus

Crée en 2016 à Barcelone, le concepteur espagnol de semiconducteurs sans fabrication  Semidynamics a annoncé la première famille de cœurs RISC-V 64 bits entièrement personnalisable, idéale pour traiter les  traiter les grandes quantités de donnés des applications ce l’IA, de l’apprentissage automatique (ML) et du calcul à haute performance (HPC). Ces cœurs ne dépendent d’aucun processus et des versions jusqu’à 5 nm sont déjà disponibles.

April 18, 2023
Semidynamics Introduces World's First Fully Customizable RISC-V IP Core

Semidynamics, the only provider of fully configurable RISC-V processor IP, announced the world's first fully customizable 64-bit RISC-V family of cores for artificial intelligence, machine learning (ML) and high-performance Ideal for processing large amounts of data in applications such as computing (HPC). These cores are process agnostic and are already available down to 5nm.

April 17, 2023
Semidynamics launches world's first fully customisable RISC-V IP cores

Semidynamics, the only provider of fully configurable RISC-V processor IP, has announced the world’s first, fully customisable, 64-bit RISC-V family of cores that are ideal for handling large amounts of data for applications such as AI, Machine Learning (ML) and High-Performance Computing (HPC). The cores are process agnostic with versions already being supplied down to 5nm.