About Akeana
Akeana is a RISC-V processor IP company. RISC-V is an open instruction set, and Akeana licenses processor core designs that other firms build into their own chips. It came out of stealth in August 2024 with three core families, from 32-bit designs to high-performance 64-bit cores, along with supporting blocks such as a cache and an AI matrix engine. The company was founded in 2021 by a team with server chip design experience and is based in San Jose, California.
Akeana was founded in 2021 and is based in San Jose, CA, United States. It is listed under ASICs, CPUs & RISC-V. Reported funding is $100M+ initial funding ($107M total; Kleiner Perkins, Mayfield, Fidelity).
Compute Technologies
- ASICs
What Akeana works on
ASICs
An ASIC, or application-specific integrated circuit, is a chip designed to do one job or a narrow set of jobs. Its circuits are fixed when the chip is made. A CPU can run any program; an ASIC does what it was designed for and nothing else.
CPUs & RISC-V
A CPU, or central processing unit, is the general-purpose chip that runs a computer. It reads instructions, does arithmetic and logic, and decides what happens next. Every phone, laptop and server has at least one.
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