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SiFive

Chip designer · Santa Clara, California

SiFive designs and licenses processor IP based on the open RISC-V instruction set. Its AI-related products include the SiFive Intelligence family of cores with vector processing and, in the XM series, matrix processing, and it offers the BigSky development server for porting data center software to RISC-V.3457Fact reviewed Oct 1, 2026

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Key facts

Legal name
SiFive, Inc.2
Ownership (separate from openness)
Privately held

Recorded classification; fact-level ownership verification pending.

Legal form
Unknown
Headquarters
Santa Clara, California12
Other documented locations
Austin, Texas1; Berkeley, California1; Marlborough, Massachusetts1
Founded
Unknown
Sectors
Chips

What is and isn’t public

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Products

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No hosted model products are recorded for this organization.

Other products

SiFive: other products
ProductKindDocumented delivery and accessReviewed
SiFive Intelligence family (X100, X200, X300 series) (external site: sifive.com)HardwareLicensable RISC-V processor IP cores with vector units of different widths, for use as standalone vector CPUs or as control units for a customer's own accelerator through SiFive's coprocessor interfaces; SiFive pairs them with an AI/ML software stack based on IREE.46Oct 1, 2026
SiFive Intelligence XM Series (external site: sifive.com)HardwareLicensable cluster IP that combines four X300-series cores with a matrix engine for AI workloads; the cluster can work alongside a RISC-V, x86, or Arm host CPU or without one.56Oct 1, 2026
BigSky SF-2U870 datacenter development platform (external site: sifive.com)HardwareIntegrated RISC-V development platform in a rackable 2U server form factor, intended for porting, tuning, and testing data center software on RISC-V.7Oct 1, 2026

Cataloged artifacts

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No artifact records in this catalog list SiFive. That is not evidence that none exist — only that none have been reviewed here.

Notable documented facts

  • In September 2025 SiFive launched its second-generation Intelligence family: two new cores (X160 Gen 2 and X180 Gen 2) and updated X280, X390, and XM cores.6
  • Besides its U.S. offices, SiFive's locations page lists offices or subsidiaries in China, France, India, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and the United Kingdom.1

Open positions

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What this catalog does not know

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  • Founding date: not documented in the sources reviewed.
  • Job listings: automated collection is not configured; only the official careers link is shown.
  • Openness: no summary has been assessed for this organization.
  • Open artifacts: none from this organization are in the catalog yet.

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U.S. eligibility

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Eligible · basis: U.S. headquarters

SiFive's locations page lists its headquarters at 2625 Augustine Drive, Suite 201, Santa Clara, California, and its website terms of use (revised April 2026) name SiFive, Inc. with the same address for legal notices. The offices in Asia and Europe are listed alongside that U.S. headquarters.12

Assessed Oct 1, 2026

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Sources

  1. 1.
    SiFive, Inc. Locations (external site: sifive.com)

    SiFive · Official page · accessed Oct 1, 2026 · evidence reviewed Oct 1, 2026

  2. 2.
    Terms of Use - SiFive (external site: sifive.com)

    SiFive · Official page · published Apr 2026 · accessed Oct 1, 2026 · evidence reviewed Oct 1, 2026

  3. 3.
    Sparking the Future of Compute - SiFive (external site: sifive.com)

    SiFive · Official page · accessed Oct 1, 2026 · evidence reviewed Oct 1, 2026

  4. 4.
    SiFive Intelligence Family (external site: sifive.com)

    SiFive · Official page · accessed Oct 1, 2026 · evidence reviewed Oct 1, 2026

  5. 5.
    SiFive Intelligence XM Series (external site: sifive.com)

    SiFive · Official page · accessed Oct 1, 2026 · evidence reviewed Oct 1, 2026

  6. 6.
    SiFive's New RISC-V IP Combines Scalar, Vector and Matrix Compute to Accelerate AI from the Far Edge IoT to the Data Center (external site: sifive.com)

    SiFive · Announcement · published Sep 8, 2025 · accessed Oct 1, 2026 · evidence reviewed Oct 1, 2026

  7. 7.
    RISC-V Solutions for Datacenters, AI, and Cloud - SiFive (external site: sifive.com)

    SiFive · Official page · accessed Oct 1, 2026 · evidence reviewed Oct 1, 2026

  8. 8.
    Official careers page (external site: sifive.com)

    SiFive · Official page · accessed Oct 1, 2026 · evidence reviewed Oct 1, 2026

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