Red Hat and SIFive have partnered to enhance RISC-V support through Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10, which now includes an AI assistant and post-quantum security features. The collaboration aims to empower developers with enterprise-grade tools for RISC-V hardware, while also addressing growing security concerns with quantum-resistant encryption.
SiFive, one of the first companies to produce a RISC-V chip, is collaborating with Red Hat to bring Red Hat Enterprise Linux support to the rapidly growing RISC-V community. This partnership will enable developers to create, optimize, and release new applications for the next generation of enterprise servers and cloud infrastructure on the RISC-V architecture. Red Hat’s RHEL 10 release includes an AI assistant to streamline administrative tasks and post-quantum security features to address emerging threats.
SiFive’s RISC-V technology is already being used by large organizations to meet compute-intensive AI and machine learning workloads in the datacenter. Red Hat’s collaboration with SiFive is a pivotal step forward in enabling a full-stack ecosystem around open RISC-V hardware. The company’s senior director of RHEL product and ecosystem strategy emphasized that the partnership will help developers leverage the world’s leading enterprise Linux platform for various deployment scenarios.
In addition to the collaboration with SiFive, Red Hat has introduced several new features in RHEL 10, including an AI-powered assistant for administrators and post-quantum cryptography support. The release also includes security enhancements such as the new sudo system role for privilege management and updates to OpenSSH to version 9.9. These features are part of Red Hat’s commitment to providing a secure and high-performance enterprise Linux environment.