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"For SiFive, adopting NVLink Fusion support will open the door to RISC-V CPUs based on the company’s IP being used in high performance AI systems. The company has long argued it has an edge in this space due to the efficiency and customizability of its designs – but with NVIDIA owning the lion’s share of the AI accelerator market, they were always going to be on the outside looking in without the ability to interface with NVIDIA’s GPUs via the higher performing NVLink-C2C interface. As well, this gives them a leg up in a space with plenty of other competitors, especially given RISC-V’s open ISA.
As for NVIDIA, this is a win by not only further expanding the NVLInk Fusion ecosystem, but by securing a major RISC-V firm the company can hedge its bets with regards to CPU support. If customers don’t want to build integrated AI systems with x86 or ARM CPUs, this will give them the option to use RISC-V instead of stepping back from the NVIDIA ecosystem entirely."