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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.

An Open Source Release of the Freedom U540-C000's Bootloader

Sep 06, 2018
The FU540-C000, which is available on the HiFive Unleashed development board, is a Linux capable board based on the open source Freedom platform. We built this chip to drive RISC-V Linux development, and it's been incredibly successful. In the three months since we started shipping the board the R...

Last Week in RISC-V: August 31, 2018

Aug 31, 2018
Welcome to the first issue of "Last Week in RISC-V", a weekly newsletter tracking the RISC-V community. This newsletter was born out of a discussion in SiFive's internal RISC-V software team and I'm compiling it so it'll have a somewhat heavy focus on the open source software community for now as t...

SiFive Hosts Girl Geek X and Champions Custom Silicon For All

Jul 31, 2018
On Wednesday, July 25th, SiFive had the pleasure of hosting Girl Geek X at our offices in San Mateo. Girl Geek X is a brilliant organization with the aim of connecting women across companies large and small for the purposes of networking and sharing career advice in the fast-paced tech industry. Ove...

Interrupts on the SiFive E2 Series

Jul 12, 2018
Last week SiFive launched the new E2 Series RISC-V Core IP. The E2 Series represents SiFive’s smallest, most efficient Core IP Series and is targeted specifically for embedded microcontroller designs. One of the reasons it is great for microcontroller applications is because of its extremely small a...

Unleashing More Fun Under the Sun

Jun 04, 2018
Good news, HiFive fans! A limited supply of HiFive Unleashed Development Kits are now available on CrowdSupply for purchase. Since the launch of HiFive Unleashed, many new capabilities are being enabled on the Freedom U540 SoC, the industry’s first RISC-V based, 64-bit quad-core application processo...

The SiFive Download - What's Up Next?

May 30, 2018
We recently announced that Intel Capital participated in our Series C funding round! Our CEO, Naveed Sherwani, revealed the investment earlier this month at the Intel Capital Global Summit. Check out the full newsletter here! ...