SiFive to adopt Nvidia technology for speedy links between chips

SAN FRANCISCO: SiFive, ‍which makes blueprints for parts of complex chips, said on Thursday ⁠it will become the first maker of RISC-V chip designs to integrate Nvidia technology that creates speedy links between chips.

Like SoftBank’s Arm ‌Holdings – an ‌industry giant, SiFive provides customers with blueprints so that they can ‌build their own full chip designs. RISC-V is an open-standard alternative to Arm’s blueprints that has drawn fresh interest from companies like Alphabet’s Google and Meta as more details have emerged about Arm’s ambitions to become a chip designer in its own right.