A new chip design used by Intel may reshape the chip industry

Free subscriber-exclusive audiobook!“No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention”Get it now on Libro.fm using the button below.SiFive, a prominent player in the chip industry, just announced a new family of processor cores that push the feature set and performance of RISC-V to new heights — and the industry giant Intel is already on board.At this very moment, the device you're using to read this text most likely uses x86 or Arm instructions, the most commonly used in chips across the processor industry. The recently announced SiFive Performance Family of processors will initially consist of two new cores, the P270 and the flagship P550, and the company says the latter is its highest-performance processor core to date.The SiFive P270 and P550 are faster and have more features than previous-generation products, and they're more economical to produce than the chips you're likely using right now.The P270 is SiFive's first Linux-capable processor with full support for the RISC-V vector extension v1.0rc.