SiPearl (France) is about to ship a (partly-)EU #microprocessor. A step in the right direction.
https://sipearl.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/PR_Rhea1_announcement_VDEF.pdf
https://www.heise.de/news/Europas-komplexester-Serverprozessor-laeuft-11308775.html
Unfortunately, it is closed and proprietary: its "backdoor-free" security can't be independently verified.
Public EU grants must stop at the "pre-competitive" stage, so the push to market was funded by equity, including from the European Innovation Council (EIC) Fund.
Time for the EIC Fund to back Open Hardware and Open EDA?



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