Whois & Analysis for sifive.com

RISC-V (pronounced "risk-five") is an open instruction set architecture (ISA) based on established reduced instruction set computing (RISC) principles.

An instruction set, with its instruction set architecture (ISA), is the interface between a computer's software and its hardware, and thereby enables the independent development of these two computing realms; it defines the valid s that a machine may execute.

SiFive is a fabless semiconductor company that produces computer chips based on the RISC-V instruction set architecture.

Their business model is focused on developing semi-custom silicon for other companies, especially smaller businesses.

SiFive's current products include the Freedom Everywhere 310, a RISC-V based system on a chip, and the HiFive development board.

Fabless manufacturing is the design and sale of hardware devices and semiconductor chips while outsourcing the fabrication or "fab" of the devices to a specialized manufacturer called a semiconductor foundry.

Foundries are typically, but not exclusively, located in China and Taiwan because of the generally low cost of labor.

Thus, fabless companies can benefit from lower capital costs while concentrating their research and development resources on the end market.

Silicon is a chemical element with symbol Si and atomic number 14.

A hard and brittle crystalline solid with a blue-gray metallic luster, it is a tetravalent metalloid.

It is a member of group 14 in the periodic table, along with carbon above it and germanium, tin, lead, and flerovium below.

It is not very reactive, although more reactive than germanium, and has great chemical affinity for oxygen; it was first purified and characterized in 1823 by Jöns Jakob Berzelius.