The development board that Intel and SiFive are developing together will be released in the summer and will be named HiFive Pro P550. The single-board computer contains Intel’s RISC-V soc nicknamed “Horse Creek” and four 64-bit SiFive Performance P550 CPU cores from SiFive.
The HiFive Pro P550 further includes 16GB of internal DDR5 memory, two PCle 5.0 slots and two M.2 slots. One provides access to 22x80mm components, and the other 22x32mm. 10GbE support is also offered and there are several USB-3 and two USB-2 ports.
The board was announced last October by both companies . The SiFive Performance P550 Cores were revealed a year earlier. These are produced on the Intel 4 process and include a SPECint 2006 benchmark score of 8.65 per GHz, L2 memory with 128KB per core and a total of 2MB of shared L1 memory. The pipeline of the CPU cores is divided into 13 steps and three instructions can be executed in parallel.
The single-board computer is intended for general use, for example to use software and to develop, writes Intel. The P550 is the same size as the MicroATX standard. That is to say: 244x244mm. It is not yet known how much the development board will cost when it is released in the summer.
