Today, SiFive has released two new cores designed for the lower end of computing. This adds to the company’s existing portfolio of microcontrollers and SoCs based on the Open RISC-V ISA.

SiFive brings the power of the open source RISC-V ISA combined with innovations in CPU IP to the semiconductor industry, making it possible to develop domain-specific silicon faster than ever before.

Those concerns have helped raise the profile of SiFive, which provides processor designs using the open-source RISC-V architecture as an alternative. Intel has reportedly ended discussions with ...