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CES 2025: The Tech Trends Driving Silicon Design

CES 2025: The Tech Trends Driving Silicon Design

Jan 20, 2025
This was my first time attending CES in (significantly) more than a decade. 141,000 attendees visited 4,500 exhibitors in the too-close-to-the-New-Year event in Las Vegas. As with most tradeshows, there were two levels to my conversations with customers and partners: Reviewing the products in the b...
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HiFive Premier P550 Development Boards with Ubuntu Now Available—With Great Reviews and a Lower Price

Dec 11, 2024
With strong initial reviews, the HiFive Premier P550 Development Boards with pre-installed Ubuntu are in stock and available for purchase at Arrow.com. First launched in October, the Yocto-based Early Access edition of the HiFive Premier P550 sold out rapidly as developers eagerly embraced it to te...
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SiFive Accelerates RISC-V Vector Integration in XNNPACK for Optimized AI Inference

SiFive Accelerates RISC-V Vector Integration in XNNPACK for Optimized AI Inference

Dec 09, 2024
In this blog, we’ll begin by introducing XNNPACK and exploring its current status on RISC-V platforms. Next, to bridge the technical gap for contributors, we will provide a step-by-step guide on integrating RVV-optimized microkernels into XNNPACK, using F32-GEMM (single-precision floating-point gene...
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SiFive Leadership in the Rapidly-Growing Embedded Market

SiFive Leadership in the Rapidly-Growing Embedded Market

Oct 28, 2024
In June 2024, SiFive announced the 4th generation of its Essential Product line. Products from the Essential family are already deployed in billions of consumer and IoT products including smartphones, sensors, SSDs, FPGA platforms, surveillance cameras, smartwatches and more. This new release contai...
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Exploring the Ongoing Debate: Is RISC-V Rigid or Flexible?

Exploring the Ongoing Debate: Is RISC-V Rigid or Flexible?

Oct 24, 2024
At the RISC-V Summit in North America this week, RISC-V International announced that the RVA23 Profile has been ratified. The fundamental objective behind RVA Profiles is to ensure software portability across hardware implementations.. This announcement reminded me of an important question that Krst...
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SiFive HiFive: The Vital Role of Development Boards in Growing The RISC-V Ecosystem + HiFive Premier P550 Update

SiFive HiFive: The Vital Role of Development Boards in Growing The RISC-V Ecosystem + HiFive Premier P550 Update

Oct 21, 2024
Reflecting on how far we’ve come since SiFive launched the world’s first RISC-V development boards back in 2016, it’s clear we’ve been on an incredible journey together with the RISC-V software community. Those early boards, like the HiFive1, were game-changers—true ignitors for the entire RISC-V re...
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