MIPS Adds 3 Managers from NVIDIA, Google and SiFive

SAN JOSE – April 09, 2024 – MIPS, a developer of efficient and configurable IP compute cores, today announced the addition of three technology and semiconductor industry professionals dedicated to driving MIPS’ technical differentiation to support the company’s global expansion in the automotive, data center and embedded markets. Reporting directly to CEO Sameer Wasson, the new […]

SiFive Announces RISC-V Products for GenAI and ML

Santa Clara, Calif., Oct. 11, 2023 –- RISC-V computing company SiFive, Inc. today announced two products designed to address new requirements for high performance compute. The SiFive Performance P870 and SiFive Intelligence X390 offer a new level of low power, compute density, and vector compute capability, and when combined provide the necessary performance boost for […]

RISC-V Chip Maker SiFive Joins OpenMP Review Board

Beaverton, Oregon — March 14, 2023 — SiFive has joined the OpenMP Architecture Review Board (ARB), a group of hardware vendors, software vendors and research organizations, in creating the standard for the OpenMP shared-memory parallel programming model. SiFive is a RISC-V-based high-performance embedded systems platform company, delivering high-performance compute density for modern workloads. SiFive solutions are […]

SiFive and Intel Foundry Services Launch $1B Partnership for RISC-V Markets

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Feb. 7, 2022 — Intel today announced a $1 billion fund to support early-stage startups and established companies building disruptive technologies for the foundry ecosystem. A collaboration between Intel Capital and Intel Foundry Services (IFS), the fund will prioritize investments in capabilities that accelerate foundry customers’ time to market – spanning intellectual property (IP), software tools, […]

Radio Free HPC: SiFive’s Big Score, Will Nvidia Buy Arm?

We start out with our personal pledge that all of our content is new and not pre-recorded. That’s our gift to you – no recycled, reused or Amazon Renewed content.  Jumping into our first topic, Risc-V IP and silicon purveyor SiFive earned a $61 million investment from a group of high-end investors including SK Hynix, Qualcomm […]

Radio Free HPC Looks at Diverging Chip Architectures in the Wake of Spectre and Meltdown

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at the tradeoff between chip performance and security. In the aftermath of the recently disclosed Spectre and Meltdown exploits, Cryptograpy guru Paul Kocher from Rambus is calling for a divergence in processor architectures: