All right, everyone. Thank you so much for being here.
So, well, I'm Frédéric Devier.
I'm an age embedded in IoT programs at the Eclipse Foundation.
I was supposed to have a friend here, my flying flow is still around,
but he's in Taiwan right now, celebrating Chinese New Year with his wife.
So, that's just me. This is a talk about chips or crisps for our UK friends,
whatever. So, please be kind with me because, well,
how would I say that? I'm not the chip engineer of designer,
but I will try to give you this taste of how Europe can gain back its competitive advantage
using open source technologies around microelectronics and AI.
All right, so, of course, we talk about AI.
We talk about microelectronics. If I were to ask you this question,
where are our AI success stories in Europe?
And you would be silent, right? They are none.
Or, if they are, we don't know them.
And that's not your problem, okay?
So, the thing is, we have bright engineers in Europe.
We have world-class semiconductor factories all over the place, right?
And significant financial support from the commission.
So, in spite of all of that, we are late as Europeans to the AI revolution.
But, not all is lost. So, the point of this presentation is to tell you,
how we can catch up partly with open source hardware.
And, of course, the type of work that we do at the open hardware foundation.
By the way, maybe you were familiar with the previous name, open hardware group.
That was an independent organization.
And, since January of this year, open hardware group is now open hardware foundation,
and a part of the eclipse foundation.
So, that's why I'm here with this wonderful UD.
Okay, so, three points in this short presentation.
First, about microelectronics and sovereignty.
A few AI use cases to show you how you could build a startup using open hardware technology
around the AI, and finally a bit about the open hardware foundation in what we do.
So, this gap in the AI, of course, we will fill it with good microelectronics.
And, part of the solution is an open source solution.
But, in order to get what you understand why this is the case,
we need to understand the current gap that we've got.
Oh, and my animations are in the wrong order.
So, anyway, so first line.
So, we start on the left.
Essentially, when you look at the history of microelectronics,
you know, this has been dominated first by the U.S.
And, after that, you had Japan, Korea that inserted themselves in the supply chain.
And, it stayed like that until today, because if you think about the big fondries,
the SMC, all of that, all of that is either in Asia or in the U.S.
And, well, of course, they are semiconductor faves in Europe, but that's not well.
Anyway, general history.
In recent years, of course, the growth of IoT embedded AI use cases drove a lot of consumption
additional production in microelectronics in general.
We have all chips in our pockets, in our phones, several of them, right?
And, the EU, over time, you realize that, well, this is an important industry that we should develop.
And, at the same time, well, didn't necessarily make the right choices in order to make that happen.
Now, the good news is that when you look at compute capacities,
okay, general compute, not specialized things like AI or whatever, this is a commodity now.
It's very, very hard to innovate, which means if you pick up a laptop 10 year old,
some most basic tasks, as well as the US machine, right?
Now, they try to sell you new laptops, saying, AI, PC is an account of stuff, right?
So, the focus is as well, which means you can feel the gap in general compute easily
because this is a commodity.
And, at the same time, tremendous value in custom chips for specialized applications.
And, risk life, as an industry standard instruction set provides you a good building block
to provide high-quality chips to your customers and consumers.
But, the key there is, of course, risk life is just the instruction set.
You don't have an open design around it.
And, at open-out web foundation, we're trying to fix that.
So, what's the plan?
How you can make up is, you know, well, overtake even, you know, the US and its Asian partners.
And, the solution is a bit in developing countries.
Why is that?
Well, developing countries are very advanced in their usage of wireless technologies, right?
And, in order to get that connectivity into place, they didn't need to build the extensive
copper networks that we have in more developed countries.
So, the strategy here is the same.
Essentially, we live frog, okay, our current gap by using cutting edge technology.
But, we skip some of the steps in between.
And, this is possible because of risk life.
In other words, Europe doesn't need to produce a European specific micro architecture
and that kind of stuff.
Can you imagine, friendship designers and German,
designers trying to agree on the number of registers in the chip.
You will never get done.
So, we live frog, that particular problem.
And, because of risk five, we can go straight to the good stuff.
The AI stuff, the more advanced two-scasers.
Because risk five provides a foundational, busy block, okay?
And, I will show you why you can do that very briefly in some use cases.
So, first, before we get that, you will ask me how this is possible.
Well, this is possible because of the power of open source.
Open source provides you governance and a collaboration layer that enable competitors to work in common with things.
And, you would tell me, who are this is not actually happening?
Yes, this is actually happening, for example, in automotive.
So, in automotive, you know, they started by sharing suppliers to reduce their costs.
And, that's why you have big companies like Bosch,
selling car parts to many, many builders.
And, after that, they started sharing platforms.
Oh, my Nissan is the same as this Renault when I get a stuff and whatever.
And, now, they are sharing ecosystems because there are many intertwined suppliers and all of that.
And, the next logical step is to have common open source platforms.
And, that's what they are doing in our software-defined vehicle working group at the Eclipse Foundation.
And, we think we can make the same kind of dynamic happen around open source hardware.
So, the suggests the spatitially to leverage open source open standards.
And, of course, European investments and risk life.
And, by the way, risk life is a real thing with massive, you know, market footprint already.
All right.
So, case studies.
Let's look at AI inference, for example.
The kind of stuff that Facebook is doing in order to show you more ads.
Oh, wonderful.
The thing is, of course, this is about inference,
because training happens once in this very expensive,
but once you have your model, then you can milk the data of people, really, and make a profit.
So, of course, this requires massive electricity, massive enterprise,
it centers, massive, you know, the support teams around the, you know, those servers.
But, when you look at the chip themselves, they are simple designs.
Okay, you take a processing element, cotton paste, that's on myos, and buying.
You have a chip that will be able to deliver the kind of stuff that Facebook is doing.
Don't forget that machine learning is fancy statistics.
Okay.
So, the chips themselves are not that complicated.
So, this is exists, and well, it's power by your spive,
and serves search results to Europeans today.
So, you can replicate the same.
Of course, AI at the edge is where the real interesting thing is.
Okay?
Because then you can lower latency and have multi-authored advantages.
So, there's an example here on the slide,
and essentially what they did is to produce a low power type of deployment,
and a very small form factor.
Once again, leveraging risk five, and this is made in Europe.
Okay?
So, they did it, you can do it.
Bosh also is working on something really interesting,
and specifically, Bosh Automated AI project is leveraging open hardware foundation cores,
and things like that, and really, this is supported by chips.
JU with the Tristan project.
And, well, some people are doing also telco infrastructure using risk five.
It's in the UK, so technically in Europe, I guess.
Anyway.
And, of course, your pockets are full of risk five.
Okay?
Even if you have a fruity smartphone, right?
There are tons of risk five-based microcontrollers in there
that will manage the power, manage the eat, manage battery charging,
and lots of stuff.
And you can do the same.
Okay?
So, open hardware foundation briefly.
What we are?
Okay.
One last minute.
Well, we are the only non-profit organization in the world,
working on verified, industrial-grade risk five cores.
And they are open source, and they are on GitHub, so you can take them,
but if I then put that on an FPGA, try the FPGA, whatever.
We have a roadmap and relief.
We have good coverage in terms of what we cover with those cores,
so all the way from very, very, very small low power microcontrollers
to data center type, eventually type of processors.
Okay?
So, that's in the far future, but already, what's in so it's green there,
is quite robust.
And, of course, we have significant EU-founded research projects
that we are involved in, where essentially we bring together
European, industrial, you know, semiconductor companies,
and of course the open source community to work together.
And so, in this case, they are leveraging several of our cores,
and we have a series of open source support components,
like the serial interface, GPIO, etc., that you can leverage,
in order to do your own custom designs.
Okay?
And the goal there, why this is at the Eclipse Foundation,
is really to have this comprehensive risk five stack,
all the way to the chip, to the cloud platforms
that we support your use cases in IoT,
as DV, whatever you can dream of and everything in between,
including developer tools.
So, that's the plan, and that's where we think we can help.
And essentially, the call to action there,
please leverage this five, please fill this gap,
and overtake the US as one European community
by leveraging what we do at open hardware foundation.
Thank you.
Thank you very much.