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SiFive Advances Custom Silicon Industry with New Partnerships, Products at 7th RISC-V Workshop

Inventors of RISC-V and developers of its first Linux-compatible core wrap up 2017 with upsurge in evaluations of industry's most widely adopted RISC-V IP

SAN MATEO, Calif., Nov. 28, 2017 — (PRNewswire) —  At the 7th RISC-V Workshop today, SiFive, the first fabless provider of customized, open-source-enabled semiconductors, announced a number of new partnerships and products that exemplify the company's rapid growth over the past year. These announcements provide further proof of SiFive's leadership in aligning with industry leaders to spur innovation in the plateauing semiconductor industry as well as the company's ability to meet increased demand for open access to custom silicon. The adoption of SiFive's RISC-V Core IP continues to grow, with more than 150 evaluation licenses in progress.

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SiFive news and activities at the workshop include:

The news comes on the heels of SiFive's recent release of the industry's first RISC-V based Linux core: U54-MC Coreplex IP, a 64-bit, quadcore real-time capable application processor with support for full featured operating systems. The standard U54-MC Coreplex contains four U54 CPUs along with a single E51 CPU, and is the first commercial RISC-V core to include multicore support and cache coherence.

SiFive also forged a string of new partnerships recently including:

Both products will be available for demos at the 7th RISC-V Workshop.

In addition to new partnerships and products, SiFive launched the DesignShare initiative earlier this year to give any company, inventor or maker the ability to harness the power of custom silicon with little to no upfront risk. Within a few months of its debut, companies including Rambus, Flex Logix, UltraSoC, Analog Bits and other industry leaders have joined SiFive's DesignShare movement to provide low- or no-cost IP to emerging companies, lowering the initial engineering costs required to bring a custom chip design based on the SiFive Freedom platform to realization.   

"From the beginning, SiFive has helped lead the charge in driving the advancement of RISC-V in the market," said Rick O'Connor, executive director of the non-profit RISC-V Foundation. "Its work in expanding the RISC-V IP catalog has been instrumental in the monumental momentum that RISC-V has achieved over the past two years."

SiFive's continued commitment to the industry have led to multiple nominations for awards such as "Start-Up to Watch" by Global Semiconductor Alliance Award and two UBM Annual Creativity in Electronics (ACE) Awards.

"This has been a banner year for SiFive," said Naveed Sherwani, CEO, SiFive. "The progress we have achieved is a direct result of the market's overwhelming interest in RISC-V as an alternative to legacy architectures. SiFive's ability to push the barriers of what's possible and engage with industry leaders has placed us in a strong position as we look ahead to 2018."

About SiFive

SiFive is the first fabless provider of customized semiconductors based on the free and open RISC-V instruction set architecture. Founded by RISC-V inventors Yunsup Lee, Andrew Waterman and Krste Asanovic, SiFive democratizes access to custom silicon by helping system designers reduce time-to-market and realize cost savings with customized RISC-V based semiconductors. SiFive is located in Silicon Valley and has venture backing from Sutter Hill Ventures, Spark Capital and Osage University Partners. For more information, visit www.sifive.com.

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