SiFive Announces 4th Generation of Popular Essential Product Line to Spur Innovation Across Embedded Applications
2024年6月25日 - 3:00PM
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SiFive is seeing growing adoption, with more
than two billion SiFive RISC-V based chips already in the
market
Today SiFive, Inc., the gold standard for RISC-V computing, is
unveiling a major upgrade of its SiFive Essential product family at
the RISC-V Summit Europe 2024. Developed over a decade, the
field-proven Essential IP is already in use in billions of products
including mobile phones, sensors, SSDs, FPGA platforms,
surveillance cameras, smartwatches and more. This full-portfolio
refresh brings higher performance, improved power efficiency and
more flexible interfaces, with configuration and integration
options to cover virtually any possibility. The SiFive Essential
Gen4 products are available today.
“The best RISC-V embedded solutions just got much better with
this fourth generation,” said John Ronco, SiFive SVP of Product.
“With the benefits of cost-effective flexibility, performance and
low power, RISC-V has won the battle for embedded. As legacy ISAs
have reduced R&D and support, we are expanding SiFive’s broad
portfolio of market leading Essential products and reaffirming our
commitment and support for customers in these critical areas of
innovation.”
SiFive has seen strong momentum across embedded segments where
the Essential Gen4 products will bring impressive flexibility and
features to enable customers to better tailor their designs. More
than two billion SiFive RISC-V based chips for embedded devices
have shipped to-date and the market continues to grow rapidly.
“The embedded space in 2024 represents a huge ($257 billion)
market opportunity, growing with an 8.3% CAGR through 2030.
RISC-V and SiFive have been increasingly gaining momentum and
taking share from the other ISAs. SiFive is launching the products
that these customers need while also innovating at the high
performance and advanced AI levels,” said Rich Wawrzyniak,
Principal Analyst at The SHD Group. “It is a mistake to discount
the importance of embedded products as the flexibility and software
portability of RISC-V makes designing products with multiple
cores—including the highest performance cores—easier, creating a
clear pathway for RISC-V into the next generations of
high-performance chips.”
Essential Gen4 IP Portfolio Features:
- Broadest RISC-V CPU and system IP portfolio
- Up to 40% runtime power reduction
- 8 different baseline embedded 32-bit and 64-bit cores
- From 2 stage single-issue to 8 stage superscalar
- Improved L2 cache and enhanced L1 memory
- Extensive configuration and integration options
- CPU type, profile and options
- On-chip memories selection
- System, peripheral and front ports
- Advanced power management and security
- Debug and trace
- Leading software support, including embedded Linux, FreeRTOS,
Eclipse C/C++/ IDE
Essential Gen4 portfolio
2-3 stage single issue with
lowest power and area
8-stage single issue for
performance efficiency
8-stage dual issue for highest
performance
64-bit Application processors
U6 Gen4
U7 Gen4
64-bit real-time Embedded processors
S2 Gen4
S6 Gen4
S7 Gen4
32-bit real-time Embedded processors
E2 Gen4
E6 Gen4
E7 Gen4
Learn more about the SiFive Essential product family here
https://www.sifive.com/cores/essential.
About SiFive
As the pioneers who introduced RISC-V to the world, SiFive is
transforming the future of compute by bringing the limitless
potential of RISC-V to the highest performance and most
data-intensive applications in the world. SiFive’s unrivaled
compute platforms have enabled leading technology companies around
the world to innovate, optimize and deliver the most advanced
solutions of tomorrow across every market segment of chip design,
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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David Miller Corporate Communications SiFive (408) 425-2820
david.miller@sifive.com