SiFive Walks Away from Intel's Buyout Offer, Considers IPO

[jardows]

According to this report from Bloomberg News (paywall, but get 5 free articles before needing to sign up), SiFive has decided to walk away from Intel's 2 billion USD buy-out offer. According to the article, SiFive did not like the amount, but especially was uneasy about Intel's roadmap for integrating SiFive's technology into it's own products. SiFive is currently considering an IPO, or courting even larger companies for a buyout offer that would respect their product vision.

Learn more about SiFive and the RISC-V products they offer at their company website, https://www.sifive.com/.

 

[GiGaBiTe]

Intel would probably turn them into some x86 instruction set, 14++++++ them and ship them on some lame Atom CPU.

Good on them for not falling into La breas' tar pit.

 

[Lakados]

Intel would probably turn them into some x86 instruction set, 14++++++ them and ship them on some lame Atom CPU.

Good on them for not falling into La breas' tar pit.

Nah RISC-V on an Atom wouldn’t have done anything. Buy using it for data organization for their Optaine memory or for sub processing on Network equipment would have really upped their game.

Samsungs new datacenter optimized memory is a crushing it. With the microcontroller built into it. Intel is also loosing ground On the networking side from more specialized companies. The IP infusion from SiFive would have given them what they need to be competitive in the AI datacenter for networking again.