Podcast EP197: A Tour of the RISC-V Movement and SiFive’s Contributions with Jack Kang
Dan is joined by Jack Kang of SiFive. As a member of the founding team at SiFive, Jack oversees the Business Development, Customer Experience, and Corporate Marketing groups. He is responsible for strategic business initiatives and partnerships, technical pre-sales activities and post-sales support, and corporate messaging and campaigns. Prior to SiFive, Jack held a variety of senior business development, product management, and product marketing roles at NVIDIA and Marvell with a long track record of successful, large-scale design wins. He also has over 20 U.S. patents from his time as a CPU design engineer.
Dan explores the growth of the RISC-V movement and SiFive’s contributions with Jack. The growth from embedded to end application is discussed, along with the attributes of the RISC-V architecture and ecosystem that are helping this growth. Many aspects of RISC-V are touched on in this far-reaching discussion, from China’s involvement to aerospace applications and ARM’s influence on the overall market.
Jack also discusses SiFive’s contributions and plans as the largest company. focused on RISC-V development.
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