SiFive are pushing the boat out a little further with U8 - OOO RISC-V with performance that is starting to look like less of a toy? (not that I dislike it, it certainly seems to fit a fair number of applications).

And of course they are also playing the ML game.. like everyone seems to be now.


Anandtech is not exactly my choice for such information, but an easy light read.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/15036/sifive-announces-first-riscv-ooo-cpu-core-the-u8series-processor-ip

https://www.sifive.com/press/sifive-announces-new-u8-series-core-ip-for-high-performance

And others are playing similar games:

https://www.seeedstudio.com/Sipeed-M1-dock-suit-M1-dock-2-4-inch-LCD-OV2640-K210-Dev-Board-1st-RV64-AI-board-for-Edge-Computing.html

Risc-V does seem to be gaining inertia as a platform for 'giving things a try', which is.... refreshing?


The SiFive manuals still seem... light? I have not looked close enough to see if they address the all too common issue of many ARM implementations whereby there is not quite enough information to actually use them without near impossible Chinese NDA/IP agreements (although that does seem to be slowly improving).