GoKawiilHello you fine Internet folks,
The RISC-V ecosystem is an ever-evolving one especially in the high-performance application class silicon space. We have seen a number of acquisitions and exits in the past year with Ventana being acquired by Qualcomm in December of last year and the wrapping up of operations of Condor Computing. We have also seen silicon being taped out with the most prolific chip being SpacemiT’s K3 SoC with Tenstorrent following suit with their Atlantis SoC along with Akeana taping out their test chip.
But today we are not talking about those companies nor those chips. Today we are talking about a company that has been in the RISC-V scene since the very beginning, SiFive and their new platform, the SiFive BigSky SF-2U870.
Aiming for the Sky
The BigSky SF-2U870 (BigSky) platform consists of:
A standard 19” 2U server
32 P870-D cores running at 2.2 GHz
256 GB of DDR5-5600
64 Lanes of PCIe 5.0 plus 4 Lanes of PCIe Gen 3.0
Support for double-wide GPUs (Up to 450W)
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