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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.

RISC-V Vector Extension Intrinsic Support

RISC-V Vector Extension Intrinsic Support

Chris Lattner | SVP of Platform Engineering
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 ...
Randomness is Secure with SiFive Shield HCA

Randomness is Secure with SiFive Shield HCA

James Prior | Senior Director of Product Marketing Communications
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...
OpenFive's Customizable Silicon-Focused Solutions

OpenFive's Customizable Silicon-Focused Solutions

Shafy Eltoukhy | SVP & General Manager, OpenFive
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

Drew Barbier | Senior Director of Product Marketing
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...
Cloud Accelerated Idea To Silicon

Cloud Accelerated Idea To Silicon

Chris Lattner | SVP of Platform Engineering
Mar 25, 2020
The SiFive Mission SiFive’s mission is to accelerate chip design, closing the time between the definition of a chip to silicon being available - we call this the ‘idea to silicon' journey. The solutions to modern computing challenges increasingly require domain-specific accelerators, silicon chips d...
Introducing SiFive Insight

Introducing SiFive Insight

James Prior | Senior Director of Product Marketing Communications
Mar 17, 2020
Access, Observe, Control The term ‘debug’ has a storied history. It’s widely reported as being coined by computing pioneer, US Navy Rear Admiral Grace Hopper, when she removed a moth from Harvard’s Mark II computer in 1945. Use of the word bug can also be traced to the great inventor, Thomas Edison,...