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SiFive and AMD are collaborating to optimize AMD's ROCm software stack for RISC-V datacenter servers, enabling open-standard CPU alternatives for AI compute.

Opens RISC-V as a non-x86 alternative for datacenter AI acceleration, reducing customer vendor lock-in and providing hyperscalers with heterogeneous CPU choices beyond x86.

업계 전문지Slicast · 2026년 9월 15일 18:42 UTC · 글로벌 · 출처: HPCwire

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SiFive and AMD demonstrated AMD ROCm running on SiFive's BigSky Datacenter Development Platform at the AI Infra Summit on September 15, 2026. The demonstration-only system showed the capability to run the modern Gemma4-E2B LLM model using ROCm 10.0 on SiFive servers powered by the SiFive Performance P870-D CPUs as the head node, with AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 GPUs driving inference offload. The companies intend to continue evaluating optimization of ROCm on RISC-V powered servers to accelerate processing times and enable larger models and additional use cases.

"We are pleased to collaborate with AMD to bring the ROCm open software ecosystem to our BigSky datacenter development platform," said Matt Langman, SVP, Datacenter at SiFive. "By combining the leading open standard architecture with their open-source software, we are enabling hyperscalers and developers to run advanced AI workloads seamlessly on RISC-V. This is another pivotal milestone as we work to accelerate the adoption of RISC-V in the datacenter."

Ramine Roane, corporate vice president, AI software product management at AMD, added: "ROCm's open-source foundation enables developers to bring accelerated AI workloads to a broad range of systems. This demonstration with SiFive is an early step in enabling developers to explore ROCm-based AI acceleration on RISC-V host platforms."

The SiFive BigSky SF-2U870 platform is designed for advanced software porting, workload tuning, and validation testing. Hardware specifications include 32 P870-D cores operating at 2.0 GHz, 256GB DDR5-5600 memory, 4x PCIe Gen5 x16 (64 lanes) and PCIe Gen3 x4, 2x 7.68TB U.2 NVMe SSD, and 10/25Gb OCP 3.0 NIC. The platforms are available today. Interested parties should contact SiFive sales for more information. The demo was on display in SiFive's booth within the RISC-V International Pavilion at the AI Infra Summit, held September 15–17, 2026, at the Santa Clara Convention Center.

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