European RISC-V Industrial Computing Initiative (erici.eu)

Great idea, but if the important EU players aren't there, what's the point?

This is like comparing an 48MHz ARM-Cortex-M0 with the CPU in your Macbook. Yes both of them are ARM cores, but the small embedded processor has very little RAM/Flash/clockspeed, no memory management unit, no cache, no modern RAM interface.

Not even the instruction set is really the same, because you (typically) won't even have floating point instructions/registers on the small MCUs, much less vector instructions.

The Milk-V Jupiter 2 mentioned in the post is basically a full-fledged Desktop CPU and it's price is not gonna be anywhere close to $2 either...

The industry can barely keep an npm update from breaking the world now.. and that’s build tools and environments and so it’s independent of “we use stable languages”

Now add the possibility of political sanctions on ISA licensing and you have -

Hardware that’s fails quicker and may not be available to buy, software that barely builds months later, and a world where the US president can sanction entities at will if they don’t comply…

Yeah, open source isn’t all that’s required

> Hardware

> RVA23 SoC with IOMMU

> SpacemiT K3

> 8× X100 cores, hypervisor extension, IOMMU

In fact several countries do support Huawei store in addition to Apple and Google ones, including having the usual bank apps available there.

https://consumer.huawei.com/pt/offer

https://consumer.huawei.com/pt/campanhas/appgallery

Does it sound like a typical LLM-generated text? In many areas, it does. But why would I care? This is not expected to be a piece of literary art. Equally, the pictures illustrating it are not artistic masterpieces, and aren't expected to be. And even the letters in the text are not carefully handwritten by a human but machine-generated.

Get used to it, and get past it. It's not worth the attention.

"RVA23 silicon has arrived. The industrial computer built on it has not."

"Until recently it lacked what industrial systems need. That has changed."

So tiresome...

What would it take to make this possible, if not completely then at least move in the right direction?

Aside from re-thinking computer manufacturing from the ground up.. RISC-V, or something like it, seems like the right idea as part of the solution.

That may be a high bar. Would all countries in the world collaborating, except for China, Taiwan and South Korea, even be able to do this?

> EPI demonstrated several results just after the Phase 2 end in 2026.[11] SiPearl demonstrated the Rhea1 chip running a complete HPC software stack. The system booted on a test board, with a standard Linux distribution running with high-speed HBM memories and their associated hardware performance monitoring counters. It successfully executed the HPL and STREAM benchmarks, demonstrating the readiness of the complete Rhea1 hardware and software ecosystem for HPC workloads to power Exascale systems. Rhea1 features 80 arm® Neoverse V1 cores, more than 61 billion transistors (7.8 billion equivalent gates), built-in High Bandwidth Memory, with 4 stacks of HBM, 4 DDR5 interfaces supporting 2 DIMMs Per Channel, and 104 lanes of PCIe Gen5 interface: up to 6 x 16 lanes + 2 x 4 lanes. Rhea1 was selected for implementation in Jupiter, Europe’s first exascale supercomputer. The next version, Rhea2, was selected for implementation in Alice Recoque, the second European exascale supercomputer.

And then more paragraphs how work was taken forward..