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SiFive — Oct 21, 2024

SiFive HiFive Premier P550 Development Boards Now Shipping

The world’s highest performance RISC-V development board unlocks new opportunities for software developers to create the next era of RISC-V applications

SiFive — Sep 18, 2024

SiFive Highlights Key Inflection Points Driving RISC‑V Adoption for AI and Introduces Intelligence XM Series for AI Workload Acceleration

SiFive event showcases how the RISC-V standard is driving AI innovation

SiFive — Aug 30, 2024

SiFive and Arkmicro Accelerate RISC-V Adoption in Automotive Electronics with SiFive’s Automotive IP for the High-end SoC Market

Santa Clara, Calif., Aug. 30, 2024 — Today SiFive, Inc. announced that it has licensed its SiFive Automotive RISC-V IP cores to Arkmicro Technologies (Shenzhen), accelerating the adoption of RISC-V in automotive electronics. Arkmicro is a well-established chip company in the automotive industry, with products already certified and mass-produced by numerous international automotive companies. Arkmicro will integrate SiFive Automotive solutions into Arkmicro’s high-end automotive SoC chips.

SiFive — Aug 14, 2024

SiFive Announces New High‑performance RISC‑V Datacenter Processor for Demanding AI Workloads

SiFive Performance P870-D brings high compute density and scalability to datacenters, vehicles, and embedded systems

SiFive — Jun 25, 2024

SiFive Announces 4th Generation of Popular Essential Product Line to Spur Innovation Across Embedded Applications

SiFive is seeing growing adoption, with more than two billion SiFive RISC-V based chips already in the market

SiFive — Jun 17, 2024

Media Alert: SiFive to Exhibit and Keynote at RISC-V Summit Europe

WHAT: SiFive (a gold sponsor) will be exhibiting at RISC-V Summit Europe from June 25-27, 2024 in Munich. At its booth, SiFive will be showing off its latest products, including SiFive’s new state-of-the-art RISC-V development board, the HiFive™ Premier P550. The highest performance RISC-V development board on the market, the HiFive Premier P550 offers developers unmatched flexibility and performance.

SiFive — Apr 9, 2024

SiFive Unveils the HiFive Premier P550, the First Commercially Available Out-of-order RISC-V Development Board

HiFive Premier P550 is the highest performance RISC-V development board on the market, offering developers unmatched flexibility and performance

SiFive — Nov 1, 2023

Sophgo Licenses SiFive RISC‑V Processor Cores to Drive High-Performance AI Computing Innovation

SiFive’s Multi-Cluster, Multi-Cores P670 and X280 Power the Open Standard Platform for High-Performance AI Applications

SiFive — Oct 11, 2023

SiFive Announces Differentiated Solutions for Generative AI and ML Applications Leading RISC-V into a New Era of High-Performance Innovation

SiFive’s Performance P870 and Intelligence X390 product debut sets new bar for high-performance compute in consumer, infrastructure, and automotive applications

SiFive — Aug 17, 2023

MEDIA ALERT: SIFIVE’S LEADERSHIP TO KEYNOTE AT THE RISC-V SUMMIT CHINA 2023

WHAT: SiFive will be onsite at the RISC-V Summit China, scheduled for Aug. 23 – 25, 2023 in Beijing. Hosted in partnership with RISC-V International and the Beijing Institute of Open Source Chip (BOSC), SiFive will deliver two keynotes on the future of RISC-V and the latest on SiFive’s high-performance RISC-V processors. SiFive will also host a series of technical sessions focused on RISC-V vectors, ML compilers, hibernation, and more.

SiFive — May 24, 2023

SiFive Gives WorldGuard to RISC-V International to Make this Robust Security Model More Accessible to the RISC-V Community

The open WorldGuard model provides a system-level approach to securing RISC-V designs

SiFive — Dec 13, 2022

SiFive Delivers Record Growth in 2022 with Fast-Growing Roster of New Customers and Products

Highlights leadership in RISC-V and proven performance and power density benefits

SiFive — Nov 2, 2022

SiFive Awarded TSMC Open Innovation Platform Partner of the Year

Santa Clara, Calif., November 3, 2022 - SiFive, Inc. the founder and leader of RISC-V computing, today announced it has received the 2022 TSMC Open Innovation Platform® (OIP) Partner of the Year award, in the Emerging IP Company category. Dr. L.C Lu, TSMC fellow and vice president of design and technology platform, presented the distinguished award to SiFive executives at the recent TSMC 2022 OIP Ecosystem Forum in Santa Clara, CA. The recognition reflects the ongoing innovation and collaboration between the two companies that is furthering the momentum of RISC-V.

SiFive — Nov 1, 2022

SiFive’s New High-Performance Processors Offer a Significant Upgrade for Wearable and Consumer Products

Next generation P670 and P470 RISC-V Processors bring ultimate flexibility and balance of performance and efficiency for next-generation wearables and smart consumer devices

SiFive — Oct 25, 2022

SiFive and Synopsys Collaborate to Accelerate SoC Design

New Synopsys Fusion QuickStart Implementation Kits Deliver Enhanced Power, Performance and Area for SiFive RISC-V Processors

SiFive — Sep 27, 2022

SiFive and ProvenRun Collaborate to deliver Best-in-Class Security for RISC-V Microprocessors

Paris, France, September 27, 2022 – ProvenRun, a global leader in embedded security, today announced the availability of its flagship secure OS / TEE product called ProvenCore, integrated with SiFive® WorldGuard technology, providing powerful SoC-level mechanism for software isolation.

SiFive — Sep 13, 2022

SiFive Rolls Out Powerful New RISC-V Portfolio to Address Unmet Performance and Feature Needs of Rapidly Evolving Next-Gen Digital Automobiles

SiFive introduces Automotive E6-A, X280-A, and S7-A products and long-term roadmap

SiFive — Sep 6, 2022

NASA Makes RISC-V the Go-to Ecosystem for Future Space Missions

SiFive X280 delivers 100x increase in computational capability with leading power efficiency, fault tolerance, and compute flexibility to propel next-generation planetary and surface missions

SiFive — Jun 28, 2022

SiFive Expands Global Operations, Opens UK R&D Center in Cambridge

Leading RISC-V innovator investing in people, community, and Cambridge, with plans to hire more than 100 within two years

SiFive — Jun 21, 2022

SiFive Enhances Popular X280 Processor IP to Meet Accelerated Demand for Vector Processing

Leading performance for AI inference, Image Processing, and Datacenter applications driving double-digit design wins

BrainChip — Apr 5, 2022

BrainChip and SiFive partner to deploy AI/ML technology at the edge

BrainChip’s AkidaTM is a revolutionary advanced neural networking processor architecture that brings AI to the edge in a way that existing technologies are not capable, with high performance, ultra-low power, and on-chip learning. SiFive Intelligence™ solutions with their highly configurable multi-core, multi-cluster capable design, integrate software and hardware to accelerate AI/ML applications. The integration of BrainChip’s Akida technology and SiFive’s multi-core capable RISC-V processors will provide a highly efficient solution for integrated edge AI compute.

SiFive — Mar 16, 2022

SiFive Leadership in RISC-V Powers $2.5B+ Company Valuation

$175M Series F Investment Led by Coatue Validates Relentless Pursuit of Processor Innovation

SiFive — Feb 7, 2022

SiFive Partners with Intel to Spark Innovation in High-Performance RISC-V Platforms

Intel Innovation Fund Combines with SiFive RISC-V Leadership, IP, and Experience to Enable Custom SoC Design

Electropages — Jan 31, 2022

SiFive and Solid Sands are helping to lead the RISC-V revolution

SiFive is creating a new infrastructure to support accelerated ASIC and FPGA design flows, IP delivery, and SoC development. These new developments comprise state-of-the-art compiler algorithms, novel build system integration, and new Verilog RTL generation techniques. It needed a powerful compiler test and verification tool, not only to verify the functionality of its current compiler offering, but also to assist in developing its new IDE infrastructure. The tool SiFive selected was SuperTest from Solid Sands.

SiFive — Jan 17, 2022

Deep Vision Adopts SiFive RISC-V to Add OpenCV-Enabled AI Support

Deep Vision licenses SiFive Intelligence X280 processor to deliver greater flexibility and AI inference pre-processing for many markets

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DigiTimes — Jun 22, 2022

SiFive Enhances Popular Intelligence X280 Processor

Article highlights rapid adoption and recent improvements made to SiFive Intelligence X280 processor.

Electronics Weekly — Jun 22, 2022

SiFive Intelligence Processor Gets Smarter

SiFive has released the latest version of its SiFive Intelligence X280 processor, which introduces new features including scalability up to a 16-core cache-coherent complex, WorldGuard trusted protection, and an interface allowing for integration between the X280 vector unit and customer-designed external AI accelerators or other coprocessors, called VCIX (Vector Coprocessor Interface eXtension).

EEWeb — Apr 29, 2022

The New Era of Design Freedom Enabled by RISC-V

Over the past few years, supply chain issues have shaken up the chip industry and have reinforced how important it is to have a competitive market for IP and silicon that isn’t controlled by any one company or country. That’s why we’re seeing a strong push from many regions to boost their domestic semiconductor industries, from the European Chips Act to the America Competes Act to India’s Atmanirbhar Bharat campaign. The open RISC-V architecture is playing a central role in these strategies by giving everyone an opportunity to innovate and compete.

EE Times — Apr 20, 2022

SiFive and BrainChip Partner to Demo IP Compatibility

SiFive and BrainChip have partnered to show their IP is compatible in SoC designs for embedded artificial intelligence (AI). The companies have demonstrated BrainChip’s neuromorphic processing unit (NPU) IP working alongside SiFive’s RISC–V host processor IP.

VentureBeat — Apr 5, 2022

BrainChip, SiFive Partner to Bring AI and ML to Edge Computing

AI processor maker BrainChip, which makes ultra-low-power neuromorphic chips and supporting software, and SiFive, founder of the RISC-V computing genre, today announced they have combined their respective technologies to offer chip designers optimized artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) for edge computing.

EE Times — Mar 16, 2022

SiFive Raises $175M To Quicken ‘Arm Intercept’ Strategy

SiFive has raised $175 million in a series F funding round aimed at accelerating its processor roadmap and strengthen its position in the market against Arm. The investment puts the company valuation at over $2.5 billion, and in a position to prepare itself for an initial public offering (IPO) next year.

The Register — Mar 16, 2022

SiFive bags $175m to further challenge Arm with RISC-V

SiFive is pulling in nearly $400m in funding this year between a new investment round and the proceeds of a business sale with the ambitious mission of eclipsing rival Arm – and the x86 world of Intel and AMD – with processor designs for everything from smartphones to servers.

The Information — Mar 16, 2022

SiFive raises $175 million at $2.5 billion valuation

Semiconductor startup SiFive said Wednesday that it has raised $175 million in a Series F funding round at a $2.5 billion post-money valuation. SiFive is the biggest startup centered around RISC-V, an open-source semiconductor technology that competes with Arm Ltd in supplying an underlying framework of chips called an instruction set architecture.

Forbes — Mar 16, 2022

SiFive Lands $175M Financing

SiFive, Inc., today announced it has raised $175 million in a Series F financing round, valuing the RISC-V company at over $2.5 billion. The Series F round was led by Coatue Management. SiFive intends to use the funds to accelerate the development of the company’s RISC-V products, future roadmap, and develop the ecosystem for the open-source Arm challenger. Intel Capital, Sutter Hill, SK Hynix Inc., and Qualcomm Ventures are also investors. The company has now raised over $350M in capital.

siliconANGLE — Mar 16, 2022

Arm rival SiFive raises $175M to accelerate development of its alternative RISC-V chip architecture

SiFive Inc., a computer chip startup that’s developing processor technology based on the open-source RISC-V instruction set architecture, said today it has raised a hefty $175 million in a late-stage round of funding.

VentureBeat — Mar 16, 2022

RISC-V chip designer SiFive raises $175M at a $2.5 billion valuation

Chip design firm SiFive has raised $175 million at a $2.5 billion as RISC-V emerges as an alternative processor architecture. The funding comes at a time when RISC-V is showing greater momentum as an alternative processor architecture to those run by Intel/AMD and Arm.

Silicon Valley Business Journal — Mar 16, 2022

SiFive just raised $175M in new funding. Its CEO says the failed Nvidia-Arm deal boosted its business

Nvidia's attempt to buy Arm scared many in the chip industry. That's been a boon to SiFive...

Bloomberg — Mar 16, 2022

Chip Designer SiFive Raises $175 Million, Setting Stage for IPO

Chip startup SiFive Inc. raised $175 million from investors such as Intel Corp. and Qualcomm Inc., giving it enough funding to work toward going public.

Reuters — Mar 16, 2022

RISC-V chip technology firm SiFive raises $175 mln, valued at $2.5 bln

SiFive, Inc., a RISC-V chip technology startup in Silicon Valley, said on Wednesday it raised $175 million in its latest round of funding and is now valued at $2.5 billion.

Protocol — Mar 16, 2022

SiFive raises $175 million in bid to unseat Arm with RISC-V

The new funding, which values SiFive at $2.5 billion, was designed to help the company establish RISC-V as a real option in the market for third-party chip designs dominated by Arm.

CRN — Feb 3, 2022

The 10 Hottest Semiconductor Companies To Watch In 2022

This group of semiconductor giants and chip startups are poised to make big waves in 2022 between new products, merger and acquisition deals and other newsworthy events. As Arm’s future stewardship has become increasingly uncertain, SiFive has risen as an alternative chip designer for companies that want to make their own processors. The main differentiator for SiFive: its use of the free and open RISC-V instruction set architecture.