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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.

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! ...

Intel Capital Investment Boosts Vision for the Future

May 08, 2018
We’re very happy to announce that Intel Capital participated in our recent Series C funding round. The investment was revealed at the Intel Capital Global Summit earlier today. Now, you may be thinking, “$50.6 million provides immense potential for SiFive – so now what?” For those of you who aren’t ...

RISC-V QEMU Part 2: The RISC-V QEMU port is upstream

Apr 25, 2018
QEMU 2.12.0 was released on April 24th 2018 and this version is the first official QEMU version to contain the RISC-V port. This is yet another milestone towards the development of the Open Source RISC-V tools on top of the recent acceptance of RISC-V in Linux kernel 4.15 in December last year and G...