SiFive hires big core engineer
Andre Seznec, a star of branch prediction
After decades of dominance of X86 in the big core area, Arm cores from Arm, Apple, and now Qualcomm are making a big entrance to the market. As an alternative, it looks like SiFive, a leader in high-performance RISC-V cores is building a big core. It ought to be the highest performance Risc V core and a star engineer Andre Seznec has been hired as a Fellow to help out. Andre Seznec, a prominent figure with a branch prediction, has joined the company to help build the new core.
SiFive P550 HiFive motherboard shipping, sold out
Great name for a dev computer
SiFive and generally RISC-V are recently getting a lot of attention. With ARM and X86 well established in the market, many see RISC-V as a healthy alternative. The company is pacing out strongly as it stands out with its broad portfolio and being produced in silicon with billions of devices shipped, from the many RISC-V competitors. Now the company announced the availability of the world’s highest performance RISC-V development board simply called SiFive HiFive Premier P550 board.
Google experiments with RISC-V
All our AI will be open saucy
SiFive RISC-V chips are being used by Google to run some of its AI workloads and tested in Google datacentres.
SiFive RISC-V CPU cores to go to space
NASA taps SiFive and Microchip for its High-Performance Spaceflight Computer (HPSC)
SiFive has announced that its RISC-V-compatible CPU cores will be the backbone of NASA's new High-Performance Spaceflight Computer (HPSC). The new chip will be developed under a three-year contract between NASA and SiFive and Microchip.
SiFive aims to carve a niche in the chip business
Risc-V business
New startup SiFive has released its Performance P650 chip which offers a 50 percent speed boost over the P550 that arrived in June.
SiFive shows there is life in RISC-V
Will 2020 be the year of RISC-V?
SiFive has unveiled a new computer featuring the company's SiFive FU740 processor based on RISC-V architecture.
SiFive hires Patrick Little as CEO
Ex Qualcomm SVP and GM of Automotive
In this bombastic week for the industry, SiFive, a leader in Risc V architecture products, has announced that it has hired Patrick W. Little as President and CEO, effective immediately.
SiFive launches U8 series core
Chief architect: 2X area efficiency vs. ARM, 3.1 X faster from U7 gen
SiFive is a company founded by the inventors of RISC-V, and the company of now 550 employees is focusing on providing commercial RISC-V Processor IP and Silicon Solutions has just announced its next generation microarchitecture.