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"We're doing great! Loads of money and everything is wonderful! Some of you are asking why we fired loads of people and that was a hard decision to make. Everyt

"We're doing great! Loads of money and everything is wonderful! Some of you are asking why we fired loads of people and that was a hard decision to make. Everything is getting even better from here!". So... it seems the effect of the post is to further piss off the departed and give the general impression the CEO is incompetent. Any guesses what they wanted to achieve with this piece of marketing?

londons_explore 3y ago
Maybe they had an important announcement to make somewhere hidden in paragraph 3/4/5, but it got edited out because it was too contentful, just leaving PR fluff?
baz00 3y ago
Well it piqued my interest in non RISC V things.
- pclmulqdq 3y ago
  SiFive != RISC-V Hopefully, we will be able to allow SiFive to fail gracefully and the architecture will keep going.
  - uticus 3y ago
    I mean, sure, I guess, technically. But really? Look at past submissions here on HN alone. The percentage of headlines containing "SiFive" without "RISC-V" is like minimal. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=sifive&sort=byDate&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
    - pclmulqdq 3y ago
      I would suggest that coverage here is somewhat biased. Today, SiFive basically owns the market for high-performance RISC-V cores, and that is the market that really interests HN. That market is also really small. On the low end, there is a vibrant ecosystem of chips and IP providers, and SiFive is actually increasingly uncompetitive. This seems to be where the money really is, but it doesn't make SiFive excited. This market doesn't get cited on HN.
      - uticus 3y ago
        That's a fair point.
    - Tuna-Fish 3y ago
      You are looking at the relationship from the wrong end. Everything SiFive does is about RISC-V. Everything that's important about RISC-V is not done by SiFive. (And if Qualcomm wins the current pissing contest for the future of the ISA, nothing that's important about RISC-V will be about SiFive, and that's fine. Qualcomm's ideas for the future are certainly better.)
fakecontent000 3y ago
It’s makes sense to me, showing you can cheerfully fire people shows you aren’t making decisions based on likability. If you were invested in this company wouldn’t you want to know the CEO values you more than his own employees? Makes perfect sense to me.
ajdfhdhdjjf 3y ago
You can say a lot about Meta, but the leadership acted with professionalism during layoffs. This at SiFive is just ridiculous.
brookst 3y ago
I suspect you it’s a case of people without much PR expertise feeling like they had to “do something” in the face of bad/concerning press. It’s the business equivalent of that non-techie relative who flips random settings and downloads random software in response to some computer issue.
phkahler 3y ago
>> Any guesses what they wanted to achieve with this piece of marketing? Sure. They're hoping to sell the company. To whom I'm not sure. It wasn't an appeal to any specific customers, but a lot about how great the company is and what a great position they're in. So that must be what they're selling - the company.
- synergy20 3y ago
  well the train left the station a while ago, intel offered 2B for it, oops

londons_explore 3y ago

Maybe they had an important announcement to make somewhere hidden in paragraph 3/4/5, but it got edited out because it was too contentful, just leaving PR fluff?

baz00 3y ago

Well it piqued my interest in non RISC V things.

pclmulqdq 3y ago
SiFive != RISC-V Hopefully, we will be able to allow SiFive to fail gracefully and the architecture will keep going.
- uticus 3y ago
  I mean, sure, I guess, technically. But really? Look at past submissions here on HN alone. The percentage of headlines containing "SiFive" without "RISC-V" is like minimal. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=sifive&sort=byDate&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
  - pclmulqdq 3y ago
    I would suggest that coverage here is somewhat biased. Today, SiFive basically owns the market for high-performance RISC-V cores, and that is the market that really interests HN. That market is also really small. On the low end, there is a vibrant ecosystem of chips and IP providers, and SiFive is actually increasingly uncompetitive. This seems to be where the money really is, but it doesn't make SiFive excited. This market doesn't get cited on HN.
    - uticus 3y ago
      That's a fair point.
  - Tuna-Fish 3y ago
    You are looking at the relationship from the wrong end. Everything SiFive does is about RISC-V. Everything that's important about RISC-V is not done by SiFive. (And if Qualcomm wins the current pissing contest for the future of the ISA, nothing that's important about RISC-V will be about SiFive, and that's fine. Qualcomm's ideas for the future are certainly better.)

fakecontent000 3y ago

It’s makes sense to me, showing you can cheerfully fire people shows you aren’t making decisions based on likability. If you were invested in this company wouldn’t you want to know the CEO values you more than his own employees? Makes perfect sense to me.

ajdfhdhdjjf 3y ago

You can say a lot about Meta, but the leadership acted with professionalism during layoffs. This at SiFive is just ridiculous.

brookst 3y ago

I suspect you it’s a case of people without much PR expertise feeling like they had to “do something” in the face of bad/concerning press. It’s the business equivalent of that non-techie relative who flips random settings and downloads random software in response to some computer issue.

phkahler 3y ago

>> Any guesses what they wanted to achieve with this piece of marketing? Sure. They're hoping to sell the company. To whom I'm not sure. It wasn't an appeal to any specific customers, but a lot about how great the company is and what a great position they're in. So that must be what they're selling - the company.

synergy20 3y ago
well the train left the station a while ago, intel offered 2B for it, oops