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SiFive [1] "SiFive is the first company to produce a chip that implements the RISC-V ISA" I think they have a bright future ahead. If there was a way to buy th

SiFive [1] "SiFive is the first company to produce a chip that implements the RISC-V ISA" I think they have a bright future ahead. If there was a way to buy their stock / invest in them, I would. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SiFive https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SiFive

TimSchumann 6y ago
Excited about them too. I preordered their new ITX dev board, but it keeps getting pushed back. Current date says end of March, so I hope it won’t be much longer than this summer.
qaq 6y ago
Great team there :) They should do a kickstarter for general purpose RISC-V CPU + Board I bet they would raise 200-300 mil.
- webmaven 6y ago
  > Great team there :) They should do a kickstarter for general purpose RISC-V CPU + Board I bet they would raise 200-300 mil. That's 10x the largest Kickstarter to date, so might be a bit unrealistic, especially considering that what you are proposing isn't an end-user product. How many boards+chips do you think such a Kickstarter campaign would sell, and at what price point?
wheybags 6y ago
I had the same thought re: buying stock. It seems like there is, if you're super rich (accredited investor): https://equityzen.com/company/sifive/ https://equityzen.com/company/sifive/ Not much use to normal plebs. The recent changes to the accredited investor definition are nice, but I do wish there was a reasonable way for normal people to get accredited. Especially for a non us person like me, it's not really reasonable to go do the professional exams they require. And ofc I haven't got the money to qualify by wealth. It does seem supremely unfair to cut off the most lucrative investments on the planet to people who aren't already the richest people.on the planet.
sxp 6y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWTvXbQHwWs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWTvXbQHwWs is an interview with SiFive's Chris Lattner. RISC-V & SiFive looks like the next step once Moore's Law ends and we need another option to increase perf/watt and perf/$. Creating device-specific chips that drop the unwanted general purpose silicon seems like the way forward.

TimSchumann 6y ago

Excited about them too. I preordered their new ITX dev board, but it keeps getting pushed back. Current date says end of March, so I hope it won’t be much longer than this summer.

qaq 6y ago

Great team there :) They should do a kickstarter for general purpose RISC-V CPU + Board I bet they would raise 200-300 mil.

webmaven 6y ago
> Great team there :) They should do a kickstarter for general purpose RISC-V CPU + Board I bet they would raise 200-300 mil. That's 10x the largest Kickstarter to date, so might be a bit unrealistic, especially considering that what you are proposing isn't an end-user product. How many boards+chips do you think such a Kickstarter campaign would sell, and at what price point?

wheybags 6y ago

I had the same thought re: buying stock. It seems like there is, if you're super rich (accredited investor): https://equityzen.com/company/sifive/ https://equityzen.com/company/sifive/ Not much use to normal plebs. The recent changes to the accredited investor definition are nice, but I do wish there was a reasonable way for normal people to get accredited. Especially for a non us person like me, it's not really reasonable to go do the professional exams they require. And ofc I haven't got the money to qualify by wealth. It does seem supremely unfair to cut off the most lucrative investments on the planet to people who aren't already the richest people.on the planet.

sxp 6y ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWTvXbQHwWs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWTvXbQHwWs is an interview with SiFive's Chris Lattner. RISC-V & SiFive looks like the next step once Moore's Law ends and we need another option to increase perf/watt and perf/$. Creating device-specific chips that drop the unwanted general purpose silicon seems like the way forward.