SiFive says its the gold standard in RISC-V embedded chips.

SiFive announces 4th generation of Essential RISC-V chips

SiFive considers itself the gold standard for RISC-V computing and it is unveiling the fourth generation of its SiFive Essential product family.

Revealed at the RISC-V Summit Europe 2024, the SiFive Essential Gen4 products are available today. . Developed over a decade, the field-proven Essential IP is already in use in billions of products including mobile phones, sensors, SSDs, FPGA platforms, surveillance cameras, smart watches and more. SiFive and the RISC-V family of open-standard chips have been gaining on market leader Arm.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.