Ainekko Buys Esperanto Hardware IP, Open-Sources It
By Sally Ward-Foxton, EETimes | November 19, 2025
Open-source AI hardware and software startup Ainekko has acquired the IP and selected assets of AI chip startup Esperanto Technologies, including its chip designs, software tooling, and development framework. Ainekko plans to open-source Esperanto’s production-grade many-core RISC-V architecture, including RTL, reference designs and development tools.
Ainekko started as a software layer for inference and distributed inference, but the founders quickly realized that without a co-optimized hardware backend, improvements to software were limited, Ainekko co-founder Tanya Dadasheva told EE Times.
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