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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.

The Next Leap in Datacenter AI: Orchestrating Custom Accelerators with SiFive Intelligent Control Units (ACUs)

The Next Leap in Datacenter AI: Orchestrating Custom Accelerators with SiFive Intelligent Control Units (ACUs)

Clifton Robin | Director, Technical Product Marketing, SiFive
Oct 16, 2026
SiFive has developed its Intelligence Family compute engines to be the ideal Accelerator Control Unit (ACU) to work with customers' custom accelerators. Although the Intelligence compute IP can be a great edge inference engine on its own, these core and core complexes have also been specifically designed to be the ideal solution to act as a dedicated, programmable RISC-V front-end controller to command and control custom accelerators.
SiFive Perspective: RISC-V SPMP Specification Ratification is a Leap Forward for Embedded Security

SiFive Perspective: RISC-V SPMP Specification Ratification is a Leap Forward for Embedded Security

Richard York | Director of Product, SiFive
Sep 11, 2026
SiFive explains how Ratification of the SPMP specification is good news for embedded security.
Introducing SKL: The SiFive Kernel Library

Introducing SKL: The SiFive Kernel Library

Eric Love | Principal Software Engineer at SiFive
Aug 12, 2026
SiFive makes available an open-source collection of highly-optimized computational routines for the RISC-V Vector ISA (RVV) and its various extensions, including SiFive’s matrix engines
RISC-V EU Summit 2026: An Ecosystem Coming of Age

RISC-V EU Summit 2026: An Ecosystem Coming of Age

Robin Randhawa | Senior Director of Software Architecture, SiFive
Jul 07, 2026
I recently returned from the RISC-V Europe Summit 2026 in Bologna and, like many attendees, I came away energized by the announcements, the technical discussions and the sheer number of people building products around RISC-V.
Inside the SiFive Performance™ P570 Gen 3: High Performance Efficiency for Next-Generation Consumer and Commercial Applications

Inside the SiFive Performance™ P570 Gen 3: High Performance Efficiency for Next-Generation Consumer and Commercial Applications

Ram Naik | Senior Director, Product Management
May 12, 2026
SiFive is evolving the building blocks of RISC-V-based IP that are reimagining and democratizing every computing platform. We take a closer look at the new Performance P570 Gen 3 and its next-gen applications.
P570 Gen 3: A System Perspective

P570 Gen 3: A System Perspective

Ian Ferguson | VP Vertical Market and Business Development
May 12, 2026
RISC-V is maturing fast, and the P570 Gen 3 is proof — here's what that means for the developers and system designers who've been waiting for it.