SiFive wants to exploit the commercial opportunities of RISC-V, an open chip architecture that challenges more-closed rivals, such as Arm and Intel. Today it is announcing the availability of its SiFive Core IP 7 Series.
These high-performance RISC-V cores are designed for embedded devices and real-time applications. The 7 Series includes the E7, S7 and the U7 series. The SiFive Core IP E7 Series provides a heterogeneous, customizable architecture with hard real-time capabilities, and the SiFive Core IP S7 series brings high performance 64-bit architectures to the embedded markets, while the SiFive Core IP U7 Series is a Linux-capable applications processor with a highly configurable memory architecture for domain-specific customization.
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