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The latest insights, and deeper technology dives, from RISC-V leaders

The SiFive blog is your go-to-source for updates on all things RISC-V including processor IP, chip architecture, software and other innovations. Whether you’re producing the next great consumer device, optimizing a datacenter or building next-generation autos check back often to hear the latest from our experts.

Randomness is Secure with SiFive Shield HCA

Sep 03, 2020
Building a secure foundation using the concept of randomness seems, on the surface, counter-intuitive. As an aspect of entropy, randomness enables the generation of cryptographic methods to protect data, chips, and systems. By harnessing the nature of randomness as the basis of a secure system, it i...

RISC-V Vector Extension Intrinsic Support

Sep 03, 2020
The RISC-V Vector extension (RVV) enables processor cores based on the RISC-V instruction set architecture to process data arrays, alongside traditional scalar operations to accelerate the computation of single instruction streams on large data sets. The RISC-V International vector working group is ...
OpenFive's Customizable Silicon-Focused Solutions

OpenFive's Customizable Silicon-Focused Solutions

Aug 17, 2020
OpenFive is a solution-centric and processor agnostic custom silicon business unit dedicated to building optimized domain-specific SoCs Today, I am excited to announce the launch of OpenFive, a self-contained and autonomous custom silicon business unit of SiFive, Inc. OpenFive is solution-centric an...
SiFive Core IP 20G1

SiFive Core IP 20G1

Jul 22, 2020
SiFive's Best Processor Portfolio Is Here We’re pleased to announce a comprehensive update to SiFive’s RISC-V IP Portfolio with the SiFive 20G1 release. This release brings important enhancements and new capabilities to SiFive Core IP, the industry's broadest RISC-V IP Portfolio, ranging from the ul...

SiFive In The Time of COVID-19

Apr 30, 2020
A Message From The CEO Innovation in SiFive’s product portfolio and business model differentiates our company, but the employee team is the heart of our success. SiFive employees enable our company to offer the full idea-to-silicon journey, from configurable processor cores with comprehensive pre-in...
SiFive’s Approach to Embedding Intelligence Everywhere

SiFive’s Approach to Embedding Intelligence Everywhere

Apr 27, 2020
Published by SemiWiki. Before the advent of RISC-V, designers looking for embedded processors were effectively limited to a handful of proprietary processors using ISAs from decades ago. While the major ISAs are being updated and enhanced, they also are facing limitations from many decisions made ov...