alt Hacker NewsI don't think they "forgot" about processors. It was out of scope. Creating the pipeline to end up with a fully "sovereign" system end-to-end is a decades long process and hundreds of billions of euros. As others have pointed out, in this context "sovereign" meant data processing. This is also a fairly paranoid take. Not to say hardware isn't targeted, but there are other methods. So spending hundreds of billions and several decades to build the fabs to gain assurance... it's a waste of time.
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France's Scaleway already offers RISC-V bare metal servers. It's a first step that brings most of the value with close to no cost, as RISC-V is cheap nowadays
This cloud provider is a for profit company, not a research institute, so they can see short term commercial value if they do it
Exactly, it was out of scope. You cannot in one go have a full-blown scope. It won't work.
This is a sensationalist headline (CBA to RTFA). It isn't a case of all or nothing, it is about becoming less dependent. A country like China follows the same industry, and besides, in a globalist economy like ours we are dependant on each other. So, for example, a lot of hardware components come from China, and assembly happens there as well. That counts for EU (DE, FR, ...), US, CA, RU, UA, CN, IN, etc. But as the talk on 39c3 has shown [1]: we can DIY.
[1] https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-in-house-electronics-manufacturi...