# Esperanto Technologies

> Esperanto Technologies designed RISC-V AI and HPC accelerators around its 1,088-core ET-SoC-1 chip, selling cards, servers and a private generative AI appliance to enterprise and data-center buyers. It ceased operations in 2025; Ainekko acquired its IP and selected assets later that year.

- **Founded:** 2014
- **Headquarters:** Mountain View, United States
- **Founders:** Dave Ditzel (Founder; former CEO and CTO)
- **Products:** ET-SoC-1, ET-SoC-1 PCIe card, AI/HPC compute server, Generative AI Appliance
- **Notable:** Built a 7nm ET-SoC-1 chip with 1,088 ET-Minion cores and four ET-Maxion cores., Shipped RISC-V evaluation servers internationally by 2022, according to the company., Introduced a four-card generative AI appliance in 2023.

## Products & services

- **ET-SoC-1** — 7nm AI/HPC accelerator chip with 1,088 ET-Minion compute cores and four ET-Maxion cores.
- **ET-SoC-1 PCIe card** — Low-profile PCIe Gen 4 card with one ET-SoC-1 chip and 32 GB of LPDDR4x memory.
- **AI/HPC compute server** — 2U rack server with 8 or 16 accelerator cards and machine-learning and general-purpose SDKs.
- **Generative AI Appliance** — Four-card, private-deployment server with a software stack and preloaded open models for specialized applications.

## Achievements

- Built a 7nm ET-SoC-1 chip with 1,088 ET-Minion cores and four ET-Maxion cores.
- Shipped RISC-V evaluation servers internationally by 2022, according to the company.
- Introduced a four-card generative AI appliance in 2023.
- Its IP and selected assets were acquired by Ainekko in 2025 for an open edge-AI platform.

## Latest updates

- **2025-11** — Ainekko announced its acquisition of Esperanto’s IP and selected assets.
- **2025-07** — Esperanto wound down its silicon business and sought a buyer or licensee for its technology.
- **2025-03** — Company engineers described an ONNX Runtime backend for ET-SoC-1 small language models.
- **2024-11** — Esperanto and NEC announced cooperation on RISC-V HPC chips and software.

## Links

- Website: https://www.esperanto.ai/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/esperanto-ai/
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/EsperantoTech
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFJM6FyIA9qwhEUg04cgavQ

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