SiFive U8-Series Out-of-Order RISC-V Core IP Takes on Arm Cortex-A72 Core

Earlier this week, we wrote about SiFive Shield open security platform as the equivalent of Arm TrustZone security technology, but the company had had another important announcement this week with the introduction of SiFive U8-Series Out-of-Order (OoO) RISC-V Core IP with much higher performance than the company's earlier U7-series core and competing with Arm Cortex A72 core.

At first, the company will offer two standard cores with SiFive U84 RISC-V core optimized for power efficiency and area efficiency, and the SiFive U87 RISC-V core with vector processing.

SiFive U84 Performance & Efficiency

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