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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.

How SiFive is Driving AI and Datacenter Innovation

How SiFive is Driving AI and Datacenter Innovation

Mar 10, 2025
The advent of generative AI has brought an increased focus on datacenter design and optimization. Datacenter chips need to be high performance with low latency to power the latest AI workloads. At the same time, sustainability is a growing concern for datacenters, so datacenter chips need to be extr...
RISC-V Software: Great Progress in 2024 and Much More Ahead in 2025

RISC-V Software: Great Progress in 2024 and Much More Ahead in 2025

Jan 27, 2025
As RISC-V technology broadens its reach from broad adoption in embedded use cases to growing deployments across a set of additional markets, one of the main questions I am asked relates to the readiness of software optimized for this processor architecture. Over the recent holiday period, I reflecte...
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...

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...
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...
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...