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SiliconWizard:
https://siliconangle.com/2023/10/24/risc-v-startup-sifive-reportedly-lets-go-engineers-executives/

coppice:
That announcement is weird. If you are an IP company you need to push the same IP into as many customers as possible, to get economies of scale. The announcement says they are canning their off the shelf cores, and will only make custom ones.

MK14:
Article by: Dr. Ian Cutress (previous Anand-Tech guy).

Which also seems to wants to know what is going on.

https://morethanmoore.substack.com/p/the-risk-of-risc-v-whats-going-on

Edit: One thought that comes to mind.  Is that the US government, seemed intent to kill off RISC-V for political (China) reasons.  Maybe something has happened, behind the scenes?

Or the company is in a bad shape, financially speaking?

Edit2: A youtube comment, (so could be totally wrong), is claiming "SiFive made job listings for all the laid off positions, but located in India. So they're outsourcing.".

Source:

ataradov:
I can't find any other good sources for this information. While the tone of the statement from the company confirms that something is going on, the rest remains to be confirmed.

what would those executives do if all the engineers are gone? You either close shop entirely, or things are not that bad.

And "US government killing RISC-V" is the same level as "California is killing red M&Ms".

MK14:

--- Quote from: ataradov on October 24, 2023, 09:48:19 pm ---I can't find any other good sources for this information. While the tone of the statement from the company confirms that something is going on, the rest remains to be confirmed.

And "US government killing RISC-V" is the same level as "California is killing red M&Ms".

--- End quote ---

In my linked to article above.  It explains that a number of sources, have been used to check the information.

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