Obiwan: RISC? Now there’s a name I haven’t heard in a long time.

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Opinion After a difficult 2023, things may be looking up for RISC-V chip designer SiFive, which expects AI to drive strong revenue growth in 2024.

According to documents obtained by Bloomberg this week, the Silicon Valley upstart’s rebound will be driven by a second-gen processor designed for AI servers, or so the biz hopes.

Though the business news wire didn’t make clear which chip family we’re specifically talking about here, “second-gen” would suggest – and it’s not been confirmed – an expanded partnership to provide SiFive processor cores for Google’s tensor processing units (TPUs).

And as we’ve previously reported, at least some of these accelerators are already using SiFive’s Intelligence X280 cores as a coprocessor to manage the device and feed Google’s matrix multiplication units (MXU) with numbers to crunch.

Despite support from major chipmakers, including Intel and Qualcomm, SiFive has faced headwinds in its attempts to challenge rival Arm.

Meanwhile, on the national front, the RISC-V world has faced calls by US lawmakers to restrict the export of RV designs to China.

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