I worked at SiFive for about a year in 2018. It was a very poorly organized company with management that was either absent (Shinoy, Sherwani) or unfamiliar wit

I worked at SiFive for about a year in 2018. It was a very poorly organized company with management that was either absent (Shinoy, Sherwani) or unfamiliar with how teams were managed outside academia (Lee). It seemed like Samsung and Intel invested in SiFive mostly to make them (SiFive) look like a going concern so they (Intel) could negotiate better deals with Arm. There were PLENTY of very smart people there, but after buying OpenSilicon it was sort of hard to figure out what they were trying to do. Are they an IP licensing company? Do they design custom cores (or SoCs) for people? Do they make catalog parts? Are they a software company? And then they kept asking too much money from Intel (which had some problems of their own) and they (Intel) walked away from the deal. I don't think SiFive could recover from that.