How RISC-V: DARE / OpenHW (CORE-V) is funded

origin: EU
host: DARE: EuroHPC JU consortium (coord. BSC); OpenHW Foundation under Eclipse Foundation
host type: joint undertaking + foundation
licence: Solderpad-2.0 (hardware)

Channel	Finding	Label	Ev.
employer developers	OpenHW members (Thales, NXP, Infineon, Silicon Labs and others) assign engineers; DARE: BSC + partners	inference	B
foundation budget	OpenHW membership dues (not published)	fact	C
public grants	DARE SGA1: €120M committed envelope (EuroHPC, 2025); Chips JU RISC-V calls	fact	A
corporate sponsorship	OpenHW member companies	fact	B
commercial model	chips/IP products by members	inference	C
donations	none	fact	C

dominant channel: public grant (EuroHPC) + member employer-developers

top funder: EuroHPC JU / EU

top funder share: majority (DARE)

funder nationality: EU

public money: true

evidence: A

note: amounts cross-referenced with data/funding/eu.json

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