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Business Wire
20-05-2025
- Business
- Business Wire
SiFive Collaborates with Red Hat to Support Red Hat Enterprise Linux for RISC-V
BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--SiFive, the gold standard for RISC-V, today announced a collaboration with Red Hat, the world's leading provider of enterprise open source solutions, to bring Red Hat Enterprise Linux support to the rapidly growing RISC-V community. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 is available in developer preview on the SiFive HiFive Premier TM P550 platform. This is an exciting expansion of the fast-growing global software ecosystem for RISC-V Share The SiFive HiFive Premier TM P550 provides a proven, high-performance RISC-V CPU development platform. Adding support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10, the latest version of the world's leading enterprise Linux platform, enables developers to create, optimize, and release new applications for the next generation of enterprise servers and cloud infrastructure on the RISC-V architecture. 'Empowering the software developer community is an important part of realizing our vision to enable our partners to deliver systems with a meaningfully lower total cost of ownership than incumbent platforms,' said Ian Ferguson, VP, Vertical Markets at SiFive. 'Delivering Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 developer preview on the popular SiFive HiFive Premier P550 provides a strong foundation to inspire the next generation of enterprise workloads and AI applications optimized for RISC-V.' RISC-V provides enterprises and datacenter companies the flexibility needed to meet strict cost, power, and performance needs in the AI era. Both Red Hat and SiFive are active participants in the RISC-V Software Ecosystem (RISE) Project that is focused on optimizing open source software for deployment in RISC-V-based systems. SiFive's high performance RISC-V technology is already being used by large organizations to meet compute-intensive AI and machine learning workloads in the datacenter. 'The continued adoption of open source and open standard technologies continues to accelerate innovation across the industry,' said Ronald Pacheco, senior director, Red Hat Enterprise Linux Product and Ecosystem Strategy, Red Hat. 'With the growing demand for RISC-V, we are pleased to collaborate with SiFive to support Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 deployments on SiFive HiFive Premier P550 to further empower developers with the power of the world's leading enterprise Linux platform wherever and however they choose to deploy.' The developer preview of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 is initially available for use on the SiFive HiFive Premier P550 platform. SiFive is collaborating with Red Hat to prepare Red Hat's product portfolio for future intersection with RISC-V server hardware from a diverse set of RISC-V suppliers. "Native Red Hat Enterprise Linux support on SiFive's HiFive Premier P550 board offers developers a substantial enterprise-grade toolchain for RISC-V. This is a pivotal step forward in enabling a full-stack ecosystem around open RISC-V hardware,' said Dave Altavilla, Principal Analyst – HotTech Vision and Analysis. To learn more about the SiFive HiFive Premier P550 development platform, please visit: About SiFive As the pioneers who introduced RISC-V to the world, SiFive is transforming the future of compute by bringing the limitless potential of RISC-V to the highest performance and most data-intensive applications in the world. SiFive's RISC-V compute platforms have enabled leading technology companies around the world to innovate, optimize and deliver the most advanced solutions of tomorrow across every market segment of chip design, including artificial intelligence, machine learning, automotive, data center, mobile, and consumer. With SiFive, the future of RISC-V has no limits. Red Hat, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and the Red Hat logo, are trademarks or registered trademarks of Red Hat, Inc. or its subsidiaries in the U.S. and other countries. Linux® is the registered trademark of Linus Torvalds in the U.S. and other countries.
Business Wire
09-05-2025
- Business
- Business Wire
SiFive and Kinara Partner to Offer Bare Metal Access to RISC-V Vector Processors
SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--SiFive, Inc., the gold standard for RISC-V computing, today announced that the company has partnered with Kinara to create a USB-based enablement board that provides access to the SiFive Intelligence TM X280 processor and sample code to allow customers to test out the X280 IP and begin development of RISC-V vector software. The Xara device will be available to select customers in late Q2 of this year. At the core of the HiFive TM Xara X280 enablement board is Kinara's Ara-2, which incorporates two SiFive X280 64-bit RISC-V cores. These cores handle pre- and post-processing tasks, tensor filtering, floating-point functions, and more. Additionally, these SiFive X280 cores connect to high-performance, high-efficiency Kinara NPU cores that are optimized for AI inference at the edge with up to 40 TOPS of performance and include support for generative AI workloads like transformer-based models (e.g., LLaVA, LLaMA, and other Large Language Models (LLMs)). 'SiFive's RISC-V cores are a perfect complement to Kinara's neural processor cores enabling performance- and cost-optimized end to end inference for edge AI use cases,' said Ravi Annavajjhala, CEO of Kinara. 'Together with SiFive, the combined solution is capable of supporting a range of AI workloads, from traditional CNNs to advanced Generative AI and multi-modal vision transformers.' 'We designed the Xara board with the intention of allowing SiFive customers to evaluate the real-time behavior of the X280 IP before integrating it into their own custom chips,' said Jack Kang, SVP, WW Business Development, Sales, and Customer Experience. 'The expanded ability to access Kinara's Ara-2 processor means developers can also explore the latest in edge AI processing capabilities.' **About Kinara** Kinara, Inc. is a leader in Edge AI technology, providing powerful and efficient AI processing solutions for a wide range of applications, from industrial automation to smart cities. On February 10, 2025, NXP announced it entered into an agreement to acquire Edge AI pioneer Kinara. About SiFive As the pioneers who introduced RISC-V to the world, SiFive is transforming the future of compute by bringing the limitless potential of RISC-V to the highest performance and most data-intensive applications in the world. SiFive's unrivaled compute platforms have enabled leading technology companies around the world to innovate, optimize and deliver the most advanced solutions of tomorrow across every market segment of chip design, including artificial intelligence, machine learning, automotive, data center, mobile, and consumer. With SiFive, the future of RISC-V has no limits.
