Nvidia-backed SiFive hits $3.65 billion valuation for open AI chips

SiFive, a company founded in 2015 by the UC Berkeley engineers who created an open source chip design, has landed a $400 million oversubscribed round that values the company at $3.65 billion.

This deal is interesting for a bunch of reasons. For one, SiFive’s RISC-V open chip design is based…