SiFive claims its new open chip cores can beat ARM's power-efficient processors

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It is also launching the E20, a power-efficient SiFive standard core designed for microcontrollers, IoT, analog mixed signal, and finite state machine applications.SiFive will demonstrate the E21 at the Design Automation Conference at San Francisco’s Moscone Convention Center, through June 27, in the RISC-V Foundation booth.As for ARM comparisons, in particular, SiFive said in an email, “While it’s great to have a better-performing processor, the bigger deal is that RISC-V represents a completely new paradigm for companies adopting it.SiFive RISC-V cores allow customers full access to the RISC-V software ecosystem, which is being built at an exponential, open source speed.The ability for companies to share in the common, robust software ecosystem while still having access to fully customize cores that fit their needs is unique to RISC-V. With the E2 Series, SiFive now provides its customers a full portfolio of RISC-V IP cores from small embedded to high-performance multicore processors, which means RISC-V can now be adopted across the entire product stack.”

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