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SiFive
Fabless semiconductor company
- 501-1000 employees
- B2B
- Hardware
- SaaS
- DevOps
- Hayward Park, San Mateo, CA
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Company mission
To bring the power of open-source and agile hardware design to the semiconductor industry.
11% employee growth in 12 months
Our take
Open source software is increasing in popularity due to its potential for customization in an ever-changing tech landscape. However, open source hardware for accessing and customizing mainstream processing chips often requires expensive licenses, royalty fees or is even impossible.
SiFive designs domain-specific solutions for semiconductors based around the silicon design framework RISC-V. These chips feature a smaller amounts of instruction sets than generalized processors. Instead, the company focuses on providing a wide range of specialized and open source RISC-V chips.
SiFive states that their customizable chips should result in a less restrictive industry whilst removing the need for buying expensive and generalized chips. The company has received support from many tech-giants such as Intel, Google and Microsoft.
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Benefits
- Vision and dental
- 401k plan
- Stock options
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Mar 2022
$175m
SERIES F
Aug 2020
$61m
SERIES E
Total funding: $372.5m
This company has top investors
Leadership
Yunsup Lee
(CTO)Studied for a PhD in Computer Science at Berkeley and interned at NVIDIA. Also Technical Steering Committee Chair of the RISC-V Foundation.
Krste Asanovic
(Chief Architect)Studied at Cambridge before attaining a PhD in Computer Science at Berkeley. Formerly an Associate Professor at MIT and currently a Professor at Berkeley and Chief Architect of RISC-V.
Andrew Waterman
(Chief Engineer)Studied at Duke before studying for a PhD at Berkeley. Formerly a Software Engineer at Mass Luminosity and are currently Privileged Architecture Task Group Chair at RISC-V.