ItsPerformance P650 designcomes with a 50% speed boost over theP550that arrived in June.

“I think we have an excellent shot at the phone.”

Unlike with x86 and Arm, the RISC-V instruction set can be used and modified for free.

SiFive develops RISC-V chip designs and licenses them to customers.

Customers can start evaluating the design in the first quarter of 2022, SiFive said.

RISC-V Summit for RISC-V chip fans

SiFive announced its chip shortly before theRISC-V Summitbegins Monday.

Arm chips also are RISC designs.

Chip challenges

AnIntel chip called Horse Creek uses SiFive’s P550.

ButIntel’s attempt to acquire SiFive fizzled, Bloomberg reported.