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Re:European RISC-V Industrial Computing Initiative by ymz5 on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @06:25AM (#50350638)
Author here. Happy to answer technical questions: about HFI BIOS, partitioning hypervisor (gRouvr), QSOE RTOS.

I hope that leading European industrial computer manufacturers notice the initiative and join -- or at least start evaluating the possibility to use RVA23 SoCs in their devices. Yes, currently only Chinese vendors can provide such chips, but the world is changing fast.

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Re:European RISC-V Industrial Computing Initiative by RetroTechie on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @09:54AM (#50352763)
Why the emphasis on RVA23? Since when are vector instructions a minimal necessity? Plain RV64GC is mooore than powerful enough for industrial/machine controllers & the like - assuming a standard sw/hw platform.

What's missing here is the "made in Europe" bit. Currently (very few exceptions), RISC-V SoCs are designed by Chinese companies, maybe fabricated in Taiwan, and boards they go on manufactured in China.

Imho that is what Europe needs to address. With EU-made boards available, the software side is the easy part.

There is some European CPU initiative. Sounds great but where are the boards?

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