

Prior to Esperanto, Dave spent six years at Intel Corporation as vice-president of Hybrid Computing, leading a team building a high-performance out-of-order processor using binary translation to run legacy x86 or ARM applications with improved energy efficiency. This talk will touch on some of the key technology advances that will enable our RISC based future, and make some predictions for what we can expect in the next decade.ĭave Ditzel is the founder and CTO of Esperanto Technologies, Inc., a company founded in 2014 that builds energy-efficient processors for AI and beyond based on the RISC-V instruction set. Most notable is that until recently, much computing has been done on only a single or small number of processor cores, but that we are entering a renaissance where access to thousands to millions of processor cores will be as common as a desktop computer is today. Having been an active participant in the RISC revolution since the term was coined in 1980, this presentation will review some of the salient achievements in the evolution of RISC until today, and talk about where the future will lead us.


This talk will make the case that general-purpose RISC processors are likely to stay in the mainstream for the foreseeable future, along with other key technology developments that will influence the design of processors of the future. The evolution of processor design in the last 50 years has taken a variety of paths, but the principles embodied in RISC design have been one of the most used approaches over the last 25 years.
