“If you’re having deja vu, you’re not alone: Europe has been talking about and toying with using RISC-V for supercomputing for some years, even getting far as some silicon, though turned to Arm’s architecture for its first exascale system.”
Europe is spending €240 million on RISC-V chiplets for supercomputers. Its last processor push ended with Arm in its first exascale machine. Thirty-eight organizations split the money. This is the second attempt.