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Intel in talks to acquire RISC-V firm SiFive for $2 billion

By Mayank Sharma 11 June 2021

Intel isn't the only one interested in SiFive

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Chip giant Intel has reportedly offered $2 billion to acquire SiFive,
a chip startup founded in 2015 by researchers out of UC Berkeley,
that designs computing cores using the RISC-V platform, which is
often touted as an open source architecture. 

SiFive is reportedly weighing the offer from Intel, which already has
an investment in the startup, shared Bloomberg citing unnamed sources
familiar with the matter. 

Earlier this year, Intel's CEO Pat Gelsinger counted SiFive as one of
the customers of the company's new Intel Foundry Services division
and announced that the two were working together to allow RISC-V
chips to be fabbed within Intel's facilities. 

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However Intel is reportedly not the only one courting SiFive, and the
company has received several other takeover interests, as well as
offers of investment, which the source adds could be the "preferable
route" for SiFive.

Open hardware

The interest in SiFive may also be influenced by Nvidia's ongoing
acquisition of Arm, which has yet not passed all its regulatory
hurdles, mostly because of concerns about the future of Arm's open
licensing model. 

Purchasing SiFive would bring a host of hardware and software
intellectual property (IP) to Intel that the company can use to
fulfill its newfound desire to service external customers through its
IDM 2.0 strategy, which will also see the company open its chip
factories to outsiders. 

Phoronix is of the opinion that SiFive's RISC-V IP is perhaps the
"most compelling" one at the moment, especially in light of its
recent developer-friendly efforts like HiFive Unmatched.

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VIa Phoronix

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