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Upcoming Events

• Hot Chips, August 20-22, 2017
• On day one of the conference, SiFive Co-founder and CTO Yunsup Lee will give a presentation on SiFive’s Freedom SoCs, the industry’s first open-source RISC-V chips. 
• 7th RISC-V Workshop, November 28-30, 2017
  • The call for papers for the 7th RISC-V Workshop is now open! 

Forum Highlights

There is a lot going on over at the SiFive Forum, which you can access through the SiFive site. The forums are chalked full of valuable content that can answer your questions and curiosity surrounding RISC-V, development boards, IP evaluations and much more. Here’s a peek at some of the threads that have our attention (and will now have yours, too!):

• Freedom Studio Beta 2 – Now live!
• Linux on the Arty board
• The RISCY BUSINESS Question

Featured Developer of the Month

Our world centers around you - the developers, the engineers, the users, the dreamers. It’s all of your contributions to RISC-V and open-source that make what we do at SiFive possible.

This month’s featured developer is Dave Grubb, who recently shared his design for a 3D printed case to house the HiFive1 development board (Photos Below). Great stuff, David! 

We’d love to feature your SiFive project in the next newsletter - let us know what you are working on!

Blog Posts

If you know us, you know that we are a chatty group. Here’s what has been on our minds (and our blog) over the past few months:

The FE310 is in a Museum – Which is Pretty Cool by Jack Kang

SiFive; The Journey to Becoming the Easiest Company to do Business With by Sander Arts

Employee Q&A: Introducing Renxin Xia by Staff

RISC-C GCC is Upstreamed! By Andrew Waterman

Women in Open Source: You DO Belong Here by Megan Wachs

SiFive in the Press

From the release of the FE310 and HiFive1, to the news around funding, RISC-V adoption and the availability of Coreplex IP, SiFive has been featured in a variety of publications since we launched. Want to see who has been talking about SiFive for the past 12 months? Let’s take a look!

Two Bay Area Startups Raise Venture Capital Around Programmable Chips by Luke Stangel,

Silicon Valley Business Journal

SiFive Raises $8.5 Million For Licensable Custom Microprocessors by Dean Takahashi, VentureBeat

Open-source Chip Mimics Linux's Path to Take on Closed x86, ARM CPUs by Agam Shah, IDG

RISC-V Cores Get Support, Fees by Rick Merritt, EE Times

SiFive: Low-Cost Custom Silicon by Ed Sperling, SemiEngineering

Will RISC-V Rescue the Internet of Things? By Bill Wong, Electronic Design

SiFive Launches Open Source RISC-V Custom Chip by Dean Takahashi, VentureBeat

SiFive Execs Share Ideas on Their RISC-V Strategy by Don Dingee, SemiWiki

SiFive: a RISC-V Fabless Semiconductor Company by Paul McLellan, Cadence

SiFive Unveils Freedom Platforms for RISC-V-Based Semi-Custom Chips by Anton Shilov, AnandTech

This New Chip Startup Wants To Bring Open Source To A Stagnant Industry by Aaron Tilley, Forbes

Backers of Open Source Chips Launch Startup by Don Clark, Wall Street Journal

RISC-V in the News

We’re always keeping an eye on RISC-V; after all, our founders invented it! Check out the latest conversations around the RISC-V ISA:

UltraSoC to Offer Processor Trace Support For RISC-V by David Manners, Electronics Weekly

FPGA IDE Zeros in on RISC-V by Bill Wong, Electronic Design

RISC-V Shanghai by Paul McLellan, Cadence 

Death of Moore’s Law Makes Open Hardware Possible by Alsdair Allan, Hackster.io

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