European RISC-V Industrial Computing Initiative

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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Re:European RISC-V Industrial Computing Initiative by petra on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @10:43AM (#50353409)

My guess: The goal is EU industrial infrastructure. In that context, a somewhat more expensive cpu doesn't matter much, but if the same chip can cover more use cases, it ensures more volume and better protection against obsolescence.

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Re:European RISC-V Industrial Computing Initiative by ymz5 on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @10:50AM (#50353498)

> Why the emphasis on RVA23?

Easy. In fact, the emphasis will be on RVA23 _and_ on working IOMMU hardware. This is needed for hardware resource isolation between operating systems running on the hypervisor.

RVA23 is mandatory for Ubuntu, for example. So the requirement is not new at all.

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