Michael Chapman, CEO of Cortus, on RISC-V, AI, and Europe’s semiconductor future

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This interview features Michael Chapman discussing Cortus’s history, its embedded processor IP, and the company’s move into RISC-V and AI inference. He argues that open architectures matter, but Europe also needs high-performance processor design to build real technological sovereignty. The piece highlights growing demand for secure, energy-efficient, and specialized compute across automotive, industrial IoT, avionics, robotics, and data centers. Chapman also stresses that AI infrastructure should use open standards to avoid vendor lock-in and support a broader European semiconductor ecosystem.

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