European Hardware Manufactoring is One Of The End Goals!

This will happen after widespread adoption of Wero and Linux.

Before or after Linux phones?

Are you insane?

That is ultra hard to accomplish. I wish you luck you crazy bastards.

Well the design work done via the GPLv3 can be started pretty easily. The $5K per wafer spin however is a pain and it takes a while to get it back.

If you are getting a wafer fabbed for 5k, you are either on very old technology node, or you are talking about bulk pricing. You cannot get single wafers made for 5k on a modern node.
- You are quite correct; but trying to start on the latest process seems like trying to bite off too much at once. Even old process nodes are sufficient to show a viable option going forward. And the design can be improved and moved to more advanced processes nodes.
If that would be great, unfortunately it’s more like $18k (https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/tsmcs-wafer-pricing-now-usd18-000-for-a-3nm-wafer-increased-by-over-3x-in-10-years-analyst). And that’s not the biggest cost issue, it’s actually the mask, which is more like in the millions of USD (https://semianalysis.com/2022/07/24/the-dark-side-of-the-semiconductor/)
- Or we could avoid the mask costs entirely
  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34907885
Wdym by spin?
- There is a design, fab, test cycle involved with working out all bugs in a design in relation to a specific lithography manufacturing process.

What about SiPearl and their big Rhea chips, Graphcore, and the big one , Imagination Technologies? What about the slowly withering Global Foundries?

I think Europe needs to pay attention to at their existing homegrown silicon gems and save/nuture/integrate them first.

And to think that Philips was involved in founding both ASML and TSMC but then divested from those companies instead of securing a European stake in the microchip business. We really do live in the stupidest timeline. 🙄

And Siemens sold their semiconductor division (now Infineon) which could've been a european powerhouse if properly supported - we really missed multiple chances to have a strong european semiconductor ecosystem, now were playing catchup with billions in subsidies insted.
Bull used to have one of the (maybe the) best CPU design teams on the planet. But as it was mostly government controlled, and the people there were mostly "meh, computers, that's geek stuff, who needs that shit anyway, let's go have lunch instead", it died/was sold and everyone went elsewhere. Now there's nothing left. Same story, more or less for all of Europe's industries ("let's do services, that's the future!"). Bunch of idiots.

Hei count me in, how do I join this?

Where do I sign up?

I'll chip in 10€!

Watch Intel going bankrupt and TSMC becoming basically a manufacturing monopoly

Link that repo, man.

Maybe using risc V vector extensions pushed to the limit? But I ain't no hardware engineer

I wish it were feasible.

But maybe you'll make something GeForce 4 level after a decade of effort. Could be fun