Qualcomm buys Ventana for RISC-V DNA, not a ready-made product line

Qualcomm acquires Ventana—and a lot of know-how.

December 10, 2025

David Harold

Qualcomm has agreed to acquire Ventana Micro Systems, a high-performance RISC-V CPU and chiplet specialist, in a move that strengthens its architectural bench and long-term optionality more than it delivers an instant data-center product. Ventana’s Veyron cores and toolchains will sit alongside, not instead of, Qualcomm’s Arm-based Oryon roadmap, and we think the near-term impact will be to inform future CPU designs rather than to ship Ventana blueprints unchanged. The deal follows Qualcomm’s years of quietly deploying RISC-V control cores, and lands against a backdrop of consolidation and vertical integration in the RISC-V ecosystem. Ventana founder, Chairman, and CEO Balaji

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