SiFive HiFive Premiere P550 RISC-V board is now available for developers (in very limited quantities)

by · Liliputing

The SiFive HiFive Premiere P550 is a development board built around an Eswin EIC7700 system-on-a-chip with four SiFive Performance P550 RISC-V processor cores, support for up to 32GB of LPDDR5-6400 memory, 128GB of eMMC storage, an on-board GPU, and an NPU with up to 19.95 TOPS of AI performance.

First unveiled in April, SiFive says the new board is now shipping… in small quantities. The first “pre-release batch of 100” boards that are ready to run Yocto Linux are available for purchase from Arrow Electronics. A wider release is scheduled for December, when customers will be able to pick up a model with Ubuntu Linux for $599 and up.

The board is actually two boards: a system-on-a-module with the processor, memory, storage, and other key components, and a mini ITX-sized carrier board with ports and connectors. When you put them together you get a 203 x 170mm (8″ x 6.7″) computer board with:

  • 1 x PCIe 3.0 x16 expansion slot
  • 1 x PCIe 3.0 E-Key connector for WiFi & Bluetooth module
  • 1 x SATA 3 connector for storage
  • 1 x HDMI 2.0
  • 2 x Gigabit Ethernet
  • 4 x USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type-A
  • 1 x USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type-A
  • 1 x USB 2.0 Type-C (for UART/JTAG support)
  • 1 x 3.5mm audio jack
  • 1 x header for front-panel audio interface
  • 1 x 40-pin header
  • 3 x fan headers
  • 1 x CR1220 battery holder for RTC clock

The board’s four SiFive Performance P550 CPU cores are based on RISC-V RV64GBC ISA CPU and SiFive says the board scores about three times higher in Geekbench 6 single-core and multi-core performance tests than the older HiFive Unmatched.

Other features include an Imagination AXM-8-256 GPU for hardware-accelerated 2D and 3D graphics and support for up to an 8K/50fps display and up to 28-channel 1080p/30fps video encoding and decoding.

SiFive says the board comes with Ubuntu 24.04 pre-installed with a Linux 6.6 kernel and support for over-the-air software updates.

Note that the $599 starting price is for a model with 16GB of LPDDR5 memory, but SiFive and Arrow will also offer 32GB models for folks willing to spend a little more.