European RISC-V Industrial Computing Initiative

This seems to be run by a random dude looking for funding:

About ERICI

ERICI is a non-commercial initiative in its founding phase. It is not yet a legal entity, sells nothing and charges no fees.

(https://erici.eu/impressum.html)

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.

So one person creates a (fantasy ?) website and it gets on the 1st page of HN being mistaken for an European initiative?

This is just a webpage some individual put up, right? I mean as far as I can see there's no institute, no company, no government behind this. Just one RISC-V enthusiast on the contact page.

Is this something more than a flag-waiving exercise? Who's actually manufacturing and selling these "European" CPUs?

I just purchased a boatload of Chinese RISC-V development boards for about $2.30 a piece. Can't wait to start playing with them.

"RISC(-V) architecture is going to change everything."

[1]: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005011967676963.html

> A machine expected to run for 15 years should not depend on one company's roadmap, or one government's decisions."

> A machine that runs for 15 years needs software that can be maintained for 15 years.

I don't quite understand. Has this been a problem for industrial machines? Can't they already run for 30 years and more?

What exactly is this initiative looking to fix and improve? Besides of the basic idea of FOSS being good, and whatever.

And the chips will be manufactured in China. Truly a genius move.

I like RISC-V as a concept but still only Chinese are focused on manufacturing those today.

So.. it's a bit funny to read there is an European Initiative... to promote Chinese computer appliances.

In times when fridges with Chinese electronics that are phoning home become more hack-able today than ever..

Neat. This seems like exactly the sort of thing Europe should be pushing

CPEU is coming! I love RISC-V and have been following its progress for so long. I hope it gets more and more adoption in the world for desktops and servers. Its already massive in MCU's but we need it everywhere. Open ISA is the best ISA

Why a SpaceMiT and not a Cortus, Codasip, or anything European? (I think there are also other companies also trying to sell their IP that could be more innovative)

RISC architecture's going to change everything.

Very sad that the silicon itself is not made in EU.

Vibe coded site and copy

Pure model slop. When I read this I get a headache and feel repulsed.

Little unclear.

Is this supposed to be the hardware to replace a PLC?

Or just another small form factor PC for industry, but happens to be RISC?

> European RISC-V Industrial Computing Initiative > Based in Europe, open worldwide

So European, right?

I'm immediately thinking: there's got to be some sort of sovereign aspect to the initiative ... right?

I mean, if there's one place you want a silicon stack that wasn't manufactured in China, it's most definitely in the guts of your industrial infrastructure (assuming you still have one, yes, point taken).

But, if you look at the "The silicon is here." section and dig a little:

> "Shenzhen MilkV Technology Co., Ltd" [1]

[1]: https://milkv.io/about

Wake me up when someone can actually build a computer from scratch with EU-made parts.

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Yet another "initiative". I remember the European Processor Initiative that went precisely nowhere.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Processor_Initiative

RISC-V is inevitable.

How long do we keep RISCV going without facing that it has failed? We were supposed to be surrounded by M1 level RVA23 devices by now.

The telling thing is in benchmarks the Loongson outperforms them, by a lot.