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
Google says it's "CPEU most commonly stands for Continuing Professional Education Unit, a credit system used by dietitians and nutrition professionals.". Yeah, not sure how that is related to RISC-V. Perhaps we should eat RISC-V powered nanobots to, uh, future sci-fi something?
In the 90s and early 2000s server uptime might be counted in multiple years and extremes in the decades
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…
Agree, all of them in same industry mostly have similar posters. My eyes keep ignoring them and focus on service quality of barbershop and restaurants.
Is it content-free? I don't think so. Is it hard to read? I don't think so either. Is it incorrect? I hope it's not %))
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.
Not an expert, but reading the article you linked it seems it was quite stressful?
> 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..
> 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.
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
"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...
"An industrial computer has to do more: survive the control cabinet, talk to the field, and stay available for a decade or longer."
Do people think this sounds good?
And what if it does, but you and I are just tired from seeing it everywhere?
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.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Processor_Initiative
> 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..
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..