SiFive, a startup that has been developing intellectual property for chips based on the RISC-V standard, said Intel will make its designs available to Intel's foundry customers.
www.zdnet.com, Mar. 23, 2021 –
Recently appointed Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger Tuesday said he will lead the company to being a "world-class foundry" to make chips for other companies, incuding Intel's competitors.
That vow could open the door to a newer technology that could even displace some Intel products, the open-source RISC-V chip standard developed at the University of California at Berkeley.
SiFive, a chip startup that has for several years been developing intellectual property using RISC-V, announced in conjunction with Gelsinger's talk that it is working with Intel to make the RISC-V designs availabe to customers of Intel's Foundry Services Business.