Openchip taps Baya Systems data-movement platform for RISC-V systems
Semiconductor fabric intellectual property company Baya Systems Inc. today announced that European chip and artificial intelligence systems firm Openchip & Software Technologies S.L. has licensed its data-movement platform and network-on-chip fabric technology to develop intelligent compute systems for next-generation artificial intelligence workloads.
Under the partnership, Openchip will use Baya’s WeaveIP unified fabric to develop intelligent compute systems and its WeaverPro FabricStudio platform to design and optimize complex RISC-V-based multi-chiplet systems. The deal extends Baya’s push into Europe, following the opening of a U.K. office in Cambridge earlier this year.
Baya, based in Santa Clara, California, makes software-driven, chiplet-ready fabric IP that handles the movement of data between memory and compute. Barcelona-based Openchip develops RISC-V accelerators, infrastructure hardware and software for AI and high-performance computing, with a stated focus on digital sovereignty.
The problem Baya and Openchip are going after is data movement. Modern AI and high-performance computing chips are limited less by how fast they can compute than by how quickly they can shuttle data between memory and processors, a constraint engineers call the memory wall. Baya’s argument is that chip designers wait too long to deal with it, bolting interconnect onto a design late instead of building around it from the start.
