SiFive expects to earn $240 million to $280 million in licensing revenue and new lifetime contracts in 2024, according to documents seen by Bloomberg. The revelation may indicate that the company is on track to sign another major contract with Google to supply processor core designs for its tensor processing units (TPUs), believes The Register.
Bloomberg indicates that IP provider SiFive pins a lot of hope on a 'second-generation chip for artificial intelligence servers' without elaborating, but this could be a major revenue driver for the company. Although SiFive can license its RISC-V cores to virtually everyone, The Register speculates that the IP developer is set to license its X390 core to Google, which is poised to use it for its next-generation TPU.
