Raja Koduri, general manager and chief architect of Intel Edge Computing Solutions, believes that RISC-V provides a new method to integrate low-power controllers and agile development tools, which will help reduce the cost of SoC development and Time. SiFive SaaS services based on cloud computing can also provide design teams with more flexibility and convenience. Intel is also very much looking forward to discovering other advantages of SiFive.
Naveed Sherwani, chief executive of SiFive, stated that SiFive has long followed the semiconductor industry revolution and believed that the company’s technology has created an important path in this area. This investment from Intel allows SiFive to provide any individual With companies can quickly and affordably silicon solutions.
In April 2018, SiFive announced that C-Financing has raised US$50.6 million in funding. Existing investors include Sutter Hill Ventures, Spark Capital, and Osage University Partners. Companies that newly joined the financing include Chengwei Capital, Huami, SK Telecom, and Western Digital.
SiFive's hardware design under the guidance of RISC-V Foundation, using the software and development tools provided by the open source community has significantly reduced the cost of chip design. System designers can use DesignShare and SiFive Freedom platform to focus more on developing differences The processor does not have to bear the infrastructure overhead and develop a system-on-a-chip (SoC).