Instructions are streamlined, modular, scalable... Having reached the milestone of 10 billion shipments in seven years in 2022, RSIC-V is giving full play to its open source advantages and expanding its territory all the way. As the inventor and leader of RISC-V, Sifive is playing the "chain master" effect of open source ecology superimposing the new paradigm of future computing, and is committed to leading the unlimited potential of RISC-V to high-performance processors and high-computing scenarios.



At the same time, nearly half of the 10 billion RISC-V processor chips are produced in China, and the RISC-V confidence in the Chinese market continues to rise. In this context, Sifive personally operates the Chinese market and business, hoping to witness the RISC-V and ecological development together with China. By Krste Asanovic, RISC-V's principal inventor and Sifive's co-founder and chief architect, and Jack Kang, SiFive's senior vice President of corporate Marketing and Business Development, Together with SiFive core technical experts and RISC-V ecological partners, the 2023 SiFive RISC-V China Technology Forum will tour Shanghai Station on June 26, Beijing Station on June 28, and Shenzhen Station on June 30. The hot registration swept China's open source ecological chain (registration channel can be seen SiFive official wechat ID: SiFive_CN).


Explore the trends in the field of important tuyeres, RISC-V experts day group tour points to reveal the plot

When it comes to RISC-V's position in the future global chip architecture pattern, "there will be one in three" is not only the industry's description of it, but also the vision. At present, RISC-V has made specific achievements in embedded, low-power application scenarios that are less dependent on ecology, and the industry is looking forward to RISC-V based "out of the circle" applications.

Figure 1. Krste Asanovic, principal inventor of RISC-V, co-founder and Chief architect of SiFive (left picture), Zhijian Gang, senior Vice President of SiFive Corporate Marketing and Business Development (right picture), leads the three-city tour of the 2023 SiFive RISC-V China Technology Forum

    At the key nodes of the current RISC-V attack, there is a greater need for the global open source community to pull alignment. At the 2023 SiFive RISC-V China Technology Forum, not only will Krste Asanovic, the main inventor of RISC-V, co-founder and chief architect of SiFive, come to the scene to discuss the development trend of RISC-V globally. Talk about RISC-V's prospects for high-performance processors and high computing power scenarios, and SiFive's senior Vice President of corporate marketing and business development, Kang Zhijian, in-depth introduction of SiFive's product and technology development in various important areas. More its chief technical experts and open source community enthusiasts collision from AI/ML to vehicle to mobile terminal applications, and then to open source tools based on RISC-V high-performance application cornerstone:



Vector computing plus RISC-V flexible and efficient advantages, AI/ML field is being re-enabled. ChatGPT swept the world to let everyone re-understand AGI, and also let AI applications surge in an instant, turning into the most potential and value of the technical tuyere this year. While in college, she began researching Convolutional Neural networks (CNN) and started the IEEE 802.11n research Group in 2001. In the eyes of Benzhong Li, senior director of SiFive AI/ML products, which has used its research results on more than 50 billion WiFi devices to date, how will RISC-V be applied in the field of artificial intelligence/machine learning?



Today, the SiFive Intelligence family is leveraging RISC-V's vector computing strengths to meet the market's computing needs for AI/ML and higher performance applications. At the beginning of this year, with the popularity of AGI and large models, the demand for AI applications is emerging, it is reported that SiFive Intelligence X280 has been adopted by Google and many customers, and is RISC-V's most successful product in the field of AI/ML.



High-performance processing is the key node of RISC-V attack, and how will SiFive help? Google recently officially announced that Android will support the RISC-V instruction set, which is also seen as an endorsement of RISC-V becoming the mainstream of the industry. High-performance processors based on RISC-V architecture and support for Android are seen as key game breakers in the open source field. With more than 25 years of experience in the semiconductor industry, including 12 years of experience in processor IP, and specializing in processor technology architecture, tool chain, verification, and software development, how does SiFive's chief Engineer, Jianzhu Wang, see this evolution? Of course, SiFive has taken the lead in building the SiFive Performance series, which aims to bring extreme flexibility and Performance to wearable and mobile devices, such as the SiFive Performance P400/P600 series, which has achieved extremely high compute density. Benchmarking the Arm kernel is more competitive.



RISC-V acceleration to the car? SiFive is the core partner for the development and application of automotive CPU chips. Under the background of dual carbon, the "new four modernizations" of the automobile industry, which are electrified, intelligent, networked and shared, are developing in full swing, but one thing has not changed, that is, the commitment and guarantee of Functional Safety (FuSa). Led by a team of professionals familiar with the field of Automotive semiconductors, SiFive has created an automotive product line with multiple products that meet different levels of ASIL safety standards - the SiFive Automotive family. So in order to address the unique attributes of the automotive sector, how to strengthen functional safety while pursuing PPA? We believe that Lin Zongmin, senior Manager of product marketing of SiFive, who has deep experience in development tool design, hardware and software design, and ecosystem partner establishment from tools to applications, will be on hand to explain one by one.



Facing the problem of RISC-V tool chain shortage, SiFive has returned to the open source ecology for everyone. As we all know, when talking about the current problems facing the RISC-V industry, the tool chain is not sound and the industrial ecology is not perfect, and the problem of tool chain and ecology is particularly important when RISC-V is currently attacking high-performance processors and high computing power applications. SiFive, as one of the inventors of RISC-V and an important role in promoting innovation in the industry, We will take the lead in the efficient long-term development of RISC-V open source ecology as the "chain master".



Recently, SiFive has donated its WorldGuard security solution to the RISC-V International Foundation to further standardize the ecosystem and ensure the highest level of security for RISC-V products. At the forum, let's listen to Yan Zhang, chief field application Engineer of SiFive, who has many years of experience in microprocessor technology and embedded security and has worked for several leading semiconductor companies as R&D and customer technical support, explain from embedded to application processors and development tools.



Connect the world's first-line ecological partners and join forces to increase RISC-V to reshape the future of computing

With RISC-V gaining a firm foothold in the field of AIoT, the expansion into the field of high-performance applications has become the next focus, and continues to evolve to high frequency and high performance; With the improvement of hardware stability, the full stack of hardware and software becomes inevitable. Software and hardware collaboration will drive RISC-V to a broader ecological cooperation, and more new models, new cooperation, and new ecology will emerge in business cooperation.



As the most powerful inheritor and promoter of RISC-V's open source spirit, SiFive can be said to lead RISC-V's innovation road. Cooperation and orders from most of the world's top 10 semiconductor manufacturers; Google has announced the RISC-V architecture as the main support platform for Android; Samsung and Qualcomm have been the first to announce their cooperation with SiFive since its high-performance application processor series began, and many industry leaders have introduced the series into mobile devices, high-end wearable devices and other application chips. To date, SiFive RISC-V processors have covered high performance computing in artificial intelligence, machine learning, automotive electronics, data centers, mobile computing, and consumer electronics.

Figure 2. SiFive RISC-V China Technology Forum has a large guest list and a large number of ecological partners

In this forum, SiFive not only demonstrated its own mature products and technological progress on how RISC-V develops in various hot high-performance fields, but also joined hands with a number of ecological partners to participate in the open source event. Experts from ScienceTech, Imperas, Green Hills Software, S2C, and Core Technology will bring their insights and insights from the perspectives of EDA tools, software and hardware simulation, software solutions for RISC-V systems, and RISC-V application to wireless communication. We will also show our own solutions in the booth at the forum site and open discussions with fans of the open source community. 

图3. SiFive RISC-V中国技术论坛生态合作伙伴将同期带来演讲及展位展示

At the same time, SiFive also prepared rich prizes at the forum. Examples include SONY PS5, Beats Studio3 Wireless headsets, Mophie Magnetic folding 3-in-1 wireless charger MagSafe, Apple Watch Series 8, Targus backpack and JD card. There will also be limited SiFive exclusive souvenirs for all attendees on a first-come, first-served basis.



According to the data released by the RISC-V Foundation, by 2025, RISC-V chip shipments will exceed 80 billion, the growth rate is far more than the original estimate of 60 billion. Therefore, standing in the future of 2023, this year is a key year for RISC-V "butterfly change", to understand the design secrets of high-performance processors, close and open source technology experts to discuss the trend, looking forward to RISC-V in mobile computing, AI/ML, automotive and other three top flow application fields... "RISC-V will be everywhere", to 2023 SiFive RISC-V China Technology Forum will have a deeper understanding of this sentence. This year's exclusive RISC-V open source event is not to be missed! Seats are limited and registration is quick. For details, see SiFive's official registration channel and official wechat information.