The report from Electronic Enthusiasts Network (by Zhou Kaiyang) states that in recent years, RISC-V has become one of the most significant ISAs in the industry, with over ten billion cores shipped. However, most of these cores are used in low-power IoT applications. As high-performance computing (HPC) has entered the Exascale era, whether RISC-V, as … Read more
According to reports from Electronic Enthusiasts (by Zhou Kaiyang), data centers, as the most focused market for CPU, GPU, and accelerator manufacturers, naturally cannot miss the involvement of the new architecture RISC-V. In previous articles, we have introduced some progress of RISC-V in data centers. Although RISC-V has not shown significant momentum in general-purpose CPUs … Read more
SiFive HiFive Premier P550 SiFive recently launched the highly anticipated HiFive Premier P550 development board, which is their latest RISC-V offering, featuring four RISC-V cores, an Imagination AXM-8-256 integrated GPU, a Gigabit Ethernet port, a PCIe x16 slot, and 16GB or 32GB of RAM. The HiFive Premier P550 is a modern RISC-V development board suitable … Read more
Author: Huang Yefeng Original from EET Electronic Engineering Magazine Processors based on the RISC-V architecture are increasingly appearing in everyday electronic products, becoming more commonplace: not only have some typical MCU manufacturers begun to embrace RISC-V, such as the previously interviewed Tsinghua Unigroup, but also companies like GigaDevice have launched RISC-V product lines; Moreover, this … Read more
SiFive 2018 Tech Seminar On May 17, the SiFive 2018 Tech Seminar, hosted by RISC-V and open-source hardware leader SiFive, and co-organized by CanSemi Semiconductor and China Integrated Circuit magazine, will be grandly held at the Changrong Crown Hotel in Shanghai. With the rapid development of the RISC-V ecosystem, SiFive, a company founded by the … Read more
SiFive Shield is an open and scalable platform architecture designed to provide a comprehensive SoC security approach for RISC-V based designs. The demands of modern SoC design dictate the need for scalable solutions for security, which provide a clear root-of-trust in the components of a trusted computing base, crucially, it is auditable. Customizable features are … Read more
At least it won’t let those AI accelerators be designed by Arm. After a tough 2023, the situation for RISC-V chip design company SiFive may be improving, as the company expects strong revenue growth driven by AI in 2024. Documents obtained by Bloomberg this week indicate that the second-generation processors designed for AI servers will … Read more
This article is sourced from the SiFive Blog, translated and reposted to convey more information related to RISC-V, copyright belongs to the original author. There Is No Best, Only Better – SiFive’s Latest Core IP Product Line Released We are very pleased to announce a comprehensive update to the SiFive RISC-V IP portfolio in the … Read more
At Hot Chips 2023, SiFive introduced the new high-performance P870 RISC-V core and its automotive equivalent, the P870-A core, discussing the overall state of RISC-V, its previous generation cores, and future development directions. The P870 and P870-A RISC-V cores are new additions to SiFive’s Performance series, compatible with the RISC-V RVA23 profile, and are successors … Read more
I have a black leather notebook that I’ve been using since 2001, with the National Semiconductor logo on its cover. It holds sentimental value for me. Firstly, it reminds me of the breakfast I had with attendees at a National Semiconductor executive event in Laguna Niguel, California, on September 11, 2001. That morning, we were … Read more