SiFive hires big core engineer
Published in News
Monday, 16 December 2024 20:54

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
Published in PC Hardware


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
Published in AI
Monday, 26 September 2022 12:42

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
Published in News
Thursday, 08 September 2022 12:26

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
Published in PC Hardware


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
Published in PC Hardware
Monday, 02 November 2020 11:24

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
Published in IoT
Thursday, 17 September 2020 19:07

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
Published in PC Hardware
Friday, 25 October 2019 12:43

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.