Designed in Europe, built in Europe but available to all that seek a truly sovereign choice.
While many European organizations use software layers that are built using open source, their underlying infrastructure frequently relies on proprietary silicon architectures developed outside of Europe.
This can expose critical environments to geopolitical friction, trade constraints, and international semiconductor supply chain disruptions.
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SUSE, a global leader of enterprise open source software, and Openchip & Software Technologies S.L., a developer of high-performance RISC-V compute accelerators, have now signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to collaborate on Europe’s first enterprise-grade sovereign technology stack spanning from RISC-V-based hardware architectures to open source software.
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The joint integration is designed to help organizations satisfy the data auditing, data locality, and operational resilience mandates of European regulations, including NIS2, DORA, and the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA).
The platform is designed to serve as infrastructure for data center modernization, localized AI and supercompute rollouts, and compliance overhauls for European public sector organizations, healthcare networks, defense agencies, and critical infrastructure operators.
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Openchip is a European systems company developing a unique portfolio of RISC-V–based compute accelerators, infrastructure hardware and full-stack software for next-generation AI and HPC applications. Headquartered in Barcelona, with a growing presence across Europe, Openchip unites top silicon and software engineering talent with a strong focus on AI … For more information, visit https://openchip.com/.
SUSE - headquartered in Luxembourg with operations in Germany - is a global leader of enterprise open source software. By transforming community innovations into secure, sovereign and AI-ready solutions, SUSE empowers customers to escape vendor lock-in and regain control of their IT destiny … SUSE also manages many Linux and Kubernetes distributions. At SUSE, Choice Happens because we prioritize community, interoperability and relentless innovation. For more information, visit www.suse.com.
Ah yes, OpenChip. Copying OpenAI and open-washing without even going through the motions of being a non-profit first.
And of course it is only “AI accelerator” chips so as of right now probably a net loss to the European consumer as they have to subsidize the insane energy costs of the target datacenters these chips would go to…
