How Scaleway brought the first RISC-V servers to the cloud
Details
- External ID
- 48107004
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- How Scaleway brought the first RISC-V servers to the cloud
- Website domain
- scaleway.com
- Launched
- May 12, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 5
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.1147011308562197
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- systems tools and desktop utilities
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Hardware & robotics
- Audience
- B2B
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- risc-v servers in the cloud
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No This is a technical case study on provisioning bare-metal RISC-V server hardware and cloud platform infrastructure, not a vibe-codeable software application.
What it would actually take: Deploying cloud bare-metal RISC-V involves designing custom motherboard carrier boards, firmware/UEFI engineering for nascent RISC-V server chips, custom BMC development, automated PXE/iPXE network booting pipelines, and integration into a cloud hyperscaler's hypervisor-free provisioning and billing infrastructure. This requires extensive electrical engineering, firmware development, and data center hardware ops.
Discussion
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Competitors
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Launched 186 days after the earliest competitor.
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