SiFive announced the availability of its state-of-the-art HiFive Premier P550 development board. An initial pre-release batch of 100 Yocto Linux-based boards, called the “Early Access Edition,” is available for purchase through Arrow Electronics. A broader release with Canonical Ubuntu 24.04 pre-installed is scheduled for December, providing developers with an unparalleled out-of-box experience.

The quad-core SiFive Performance P550 processor, running at 1.4GHz, makes the HiFive Premier P550 the highest-performing RISC-V development board available. Its out-of-order core architecture delivers exceptional compute density and performance, all within an energy-efficient footprint.

HiFive Premier P550 Key Features:

• The world’s highest performing commercially available RISC-V CPU- SiFive P550
• 16-32GB LPDDR5 / 128GB eMMC
• Robust PC connectivity: SATA, PCIe, SD, M.2, USB 3
• Integrated Imagination GPU and ESWIN NPU