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SiFive unveils BigSky RISC-V development server, wins hyperscaler customers
RISC-V chip designer SiFive has unveiled its BigSky SF-2U870 development server based on its own CPUs, a report said. The company said the system helps migrate key workloads to the RISC-V open architecture and will be adopted by hyperscalers and software customers. BigSky includes 32 SiFive P870-D cores, 256GB of DDR5 memory, two 7.68TB NVMe SSDs and 10 and 25 Gbps OCP network adapters.
AI & Enterprise
Nvidia begins mass production of Groq 3 LPX for AI agents
Nvidia has shifted its Groq 3 LPX inference accelerator for AI agents into mass production. The chip extends Nvidia\'s Vera Rubin data center platform and targets high-speed token generation to reduce decode latency in agent workflows. In an Artificial Analysis benchmark, it produced 3,400 tokens per second running the open-source Gemma 4 31B model with a 100,000-token context window. Nebius Group is among early adopters, and SpaceX was named a new flagship customer.
Industry
Nvidia unveils four new products ahead of earnings, focusing on token generation speed
Nvidia unveiled new AI inference accelerators and network infrastructure products at Hot Chips 2026 in the United States on Aug. 25, a day before its second-quarter earnings. The company said interactive inference accelerator Nvidia Grok 3 LPX has entered mass production, alongside Spectrum-X Multiplane Ethernet scaling and ScaleIn infrastructure acceleration technology. The announcements focused on inference, particularly token generation speed, and also highlighted inference speed, network scalability and agent-focused CPUs within the Vera Rubin platform.
