New Episode: Building the First Vector Processor in Meta's MTIA

We’ve published a new episode of Conversations with the CTO. Host Jonah McLeod sits down with SimplEx Micro founder and CTO Dr. Thang Tran to trace the RISC-V vector engine Thang architected at Andes — now shipping in production inside Meta’s MTIA silicon — built against RVV version 0.7, before the RISC-V Vector ISA was even finalized.

Thang walks through the approach he took, the risk of committing to a moving spec, and how the engagement with Meta was delivered on a 9-month schedule with zero missed milestones — to the point Meta asked the team to slow down.

The episode also connects that history to the register-scoreboard lineage that now underpins SimplEx’s time-based scheduling architecture.