About Ventana Micro Systems
Ventana Micro Systems designed high-performance RISC-V processor cores and chiplets for data centres under the Veyron name. RISC-V is an open instruction set that any company can use without licensing fees, unlike Arm designs. Chiplets are small dies combined in one package. Ventana was founded in 2018 and was based in Cupertino, California. Qualcomm announced in December 2025 that it had acquired the company, with financial terms undisclosed, to add to its own CPU and RISC-V engineering.
Ventana Micro Systems was founded in 2018 and is based in Cupertino, CA, United States. It is listed under ASICs, AI Accelerators, CPUs & RISC-V. Reported funding is $108M+.
Compute Technologies
- ASICs
- AI Accelerators
What Ventana Micro Systems 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.
AI Accelerators
An AI accelerator is a chip, or a part of a chip, designed to run machine learning faster or with less energy than a general-purpose processor. The category includes GPUs, TPUs, neural processing units (NPUs) and chips from many startups.
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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