YesFiveAnnounceThe company has been selected by NASA to become the supplier of next-generation high-performance aerospace computing processors. It plans to build the next-generation high-performance aerospace computing processor by combining eight SiFive Intelligence X8 RISC-V vector cores with four SiFive RISC-V architecture cores, which are expected to be used for lunar exploration and Mars landing.
Compared to processors designed using the IBM PowerPC architecture in the past, SiFive boasts that its processors built using the RISC-V architecture offer hundreds of times the performance improvement. In addition to being suitable for lunar exploration and Mars landing, it is also expected to meet NASA's future space exploration computing needs.
Jack Kang, SiFive's senior vice president of business development, stated that processor design development based on the RISC-V architecture will be more unrestricted and can also respond to various processor application requirements in a more flexible manner. He also emphasized that SiFive processors can bring higher computing performance to scientific and space workloads, and can meet the needs of autonomous landing vehicles, autonomous flight in space environments, and visual image recognition processing.
SiFive announced in March this year that it had raised $3 million through its Series F funding round and was focusing on promoting the RISC-V open source architecture. It is expected that by 1.75, the shipment volume of chips built on the RISC-V open source architecture will reachIt will reach 600 billion.
