Emerging Tech & Research

SiFive has introduced a rack-mount development server designed to facilitate the porting of software and optimization of workloads for RISC-V architectures. This hardware aims to accelerate the adoption of the open standard within datacenter environments, often referred to as bitbarns. The system provides a dedicated platform for engineers to test and refine RISC-V implementations before full-scale deployment.

• SiFive targets datacenter adoption with a dedicated rack-mount RISC-V development platform.
• Hardware focuses on software porting and workload optimization for the open standard.
• Aims to bridge the gap between RISC-V design and practical bitbarn deployment.
• Provides a concrete testing ground for engineers moving beyond emulation.

Google has released HEIR, an open-source compiler and toolchain that compiles pre-trained AI models to operate on homomorphically encrypted data. This allows developers to deploy inference on encrypted inputs without retraining models from scratch. The toolchain aims to simplify the deployment of privacy-preserving machine learning by handling the complex compilation steps automatically.

• Compile existing unencrypted AI models to run on encrypted data without retraining.
• HEIR serves as an open-source toolchain to simplify homomorphic encryption deployment.
• Enables one-click style deployment for privacy-preserving model inference.