Opinion After a difficult 2023, things could get better for RISC-V chip designer SiFive, which expects AI to drive strong revenue growth in 2024.
Intel buys RISC-V technology – $2 billion in offer for SiFive
According to documents obtained by Bloomberg this week, the Silicon Valley upstart's recovery will be fueled by a second-generation processor designed for AI servers, or so the biz hopes.
While the business newswire didn't clarify which chip family we're specifically talking about here, the "second generation" would suggest — and it hasn't been confirmed — an expanded partnership to provide SiFive processor cores for Google's tensor processing units (TPUs).
These Google AI accelerators, now in their fifth generation, were originally designed to accelerate Google's internal machine learning workloads. More recently, the search giant has started making them available to the public to power its own AI training and inference jobs.
