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System on Chip design resources
June 29, 2026 -
By Erik van Klinken, techzine.eu
A sovereign IT infrastructure is open to interpretation. Only the American hyperscalers consider data residency sufficient to call an IT stack sovereign. Rarely, however, is the physical hardware discussed: how autonomous are you if your chips come from elsewhere? SUSE and Openchip are setting a good example by aiming for RISC-V-based hardware of European origin.
Let’s be clear: Openchip, just as was the case a year ago, has not yet produced a chip. We should expect an actual product by early 2027 at the latest. It’s clear that RISC-V forms the basis of the design—an ISA that, unlike x86 and Arm, is free from restrictive licenses or per-unit licensing fees. Another contrasting fact is that even the fastest RISC-V-based systems are far from offering competitive speeds. That should change over time.