SiFive Announces 4th Generation of Popular Essential Product Line to Drive Innovation in Embedded Applications

SiFive is seeing growing adoption, with more than two billion SiFive RISC-V chips already on the market

MUNICH, June 25, 2024–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Today, SiFive, Inc., the benchmark in RISC-V computing, is unveiling a major upgrade to its SiFive Essential family of products at RISC-V Summit Europe 2024. Developed over a decade, the field proven essential IP is already used in billions of products, including mobile phones, sensors, solid state drives, FPGA platforms, surveillance cameras, smart watches and even more. This comprehensive portfolio refresh brings higher performance, improved energy efficiency and more flexible interfaces, with configuration and integration options to cover virtually every possibility. SiFive Essential Gen4 products are available today.

“The best-in-class RISC-V embedded solutions have gotten even better with this fourth generation,” said John Ronco, SiFive senior vice president of products. “With the benefits of cost-effective flexibility, performance and low power, RISC-V has won the embedded battle. While previous ISAs reduced R&D and support, we are expanding SiFive’s broad portfolio of market-leading Essential products and reaffirming our commitment and support to customers in these critical areas of innovation.

SiFive has seen strong momentum in embedded segments where Essential Gen4 products will bring impressive flexibility and functionality to enable customers to better customize their designs. More than two billion SiFive RISC-V chips for embedded devices have been shipped to date and the market continues to grow rapidly.

“Embedded space in 2024 represents a huge market opportunity ($257 billion), growing with a CAGR of 8.3% until 2030. RISC-V and SiFive have been growing in scale and gaining market share compared to other ISAs. SiFive is launching the products these customers need while innovating high performance and advanced artificial intelligence,” said Rich Wawrzyniak, principal analyst at SHD Group. “It is a mistake to overlook the importance of embedded products like flexibility and software. The portability of RISC-V makes it easier to design products with multiple cores, including the highest performance cores, creating a clear path for RISC-V to the next generations of high-performance chips.

Key Features of the IP Gen4 Wallet:

• The broadest portfolio of RISC-V system IP and processors

• Up to 40% reduction in energy consumption

• 8 different basic integrated 32-bit and 64-bit cores

• From single number in 2 steps to superscalar in 8 steps

• Enhanced L2 cache and enhanced L1 memory

• Extensive configuration and integration options

  • Processor type, profile and options

  • Selection of on-chip memories

  • System, peripheral, and front ports

• Advanced power management and security

• Debug and trace

• Industry-leading software support including embedded Linux, FreeRTOS, Eclipse C/C++/IDE

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Essential Gen4 Wallet

Learn more about the SiFive Essential family of products here https://www.sifive.com/cores/essential.

About SiFive

As the pioneer who introduced RISC-V to the world, SiFive is transforming the future of computing by bringing the unlimited potential of RISC-V to the world’s highest-performance, most data-intensive applications. SiFive’s unmatched computing platforms have enabled leading technology companies around the world to innovate, optimize and deliver tomorrow’s most advanced solutions across all chip design market segments, including artificial intelligence, machine learning, automotive, data center, mobile and consumer. With SiFive, the future of RISC-V has no limits.

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Contacts

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SiFive corporate communication
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