SiFive's First Server Platform
SiFive has launched the BigSky SF-2U870, a new RISC-V server platform designed to provide a stable, high-performance environment for developers. The platform supports the RVA23 standard, enabling out-of-the-box compatibility with modern Linux distributions like Ubuntu 26.04.
Why it matters
This marks a significant milestone for the RISC-V ecosystem as it moves from experimental development boards to viable, high-performance server-grade hardware.
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The RISC-V ecosystem is an ever-evolving one especially in the high-performance application class silicon space. We have seen a number of acquisitions and exits in the past year with Ventana being acquired by Qualcomm in December of last year and the wrapping up of operations of Condor Computing. We have also seen silicon being taped out with the most prolific chip being SpacemiT’s K3 SoC with Tenstorrent following suit with their Atlantis SoC along with Akeana taping out their test chip.
But today we are not talking about those companies nor those chips. Today we are talking about a company that has been in the RISC-V scene since the very beginning, SiFive and their new platform, the SiFive BigSky SF-2U870.
The BigSky SF-2U870 (BigSky) platform consists of:
64 Lanes of PCIe 5.0 plus 4 Lanes of PCIe Gen 3.0
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