AI is everywhere and especially open source is accelerating capabilities and delivering new breakthroughs in Models, making them smaller yet more powerful. While there is a big focus on the next big thing in Software, many overlook the goldrush in Hardware. You may have heard of companies like Nvidia, AMD or Axelera.AI, they are some of the ones selling the shovels to the diggers for a great profit margin. Have you ever wondered what it take to make your own chip?  So how to get started on your AI startup? The good news is: there is RISC-V, an open standard for CPUs, so everyone cam implement their own CPU and use common library software (in theory).  The even better news is there is an non profit open source organization called OpenHW Foundation offering high quality Apache 2.0 (or Solderpad) CPU Cores you can take as is, modify as needed and collaborate with a big community. Even better, the OpenHW Foundation is offering small platforms to debug on FPGA's but also has QEMU support and various other Models for example system Verilog cycle accurate SystemC Models. On top of this we also provide the Software eco system you need to brign your chip up and running quickly and sell it to one of the big Datacenter Companies, or just keep it running in your basement, heating your house and providing awesome AI edge capabilities for you and your family! In this talk Flo will highlight the current trends in chip development and how open source is accelerating this from the Cores to the EDA tools for designing but also open source tapeouts and then focus a little more on some of the Cores in OpenWH and how you can utilize it. Dr Jeremy Bennett world famous for his 45min overviews on "how to get GNU GCC ported on a totally new Architecture" is joining to deliver an overview which Software you need to run on your Chip, to develop your Chip and why it is easy with the OpenHW Group. Last but not least we will spill the beans on how the European Union is supportign our work as a non profit (and also for profits in that context) to guarantee sovereignty and enable academic but also research and industrial to build and innovate on a common platform via the Chips JU and programs like TRISTAN and how you can benefit, no matter if you quickly develop a MCU in your Master, need to do some measurements on real RISC-V Cores for your PhD and prove how to boost performance or if you join the real business selling shovels to all the diggers. Believe us, this talk will be a wild ride deep into the Hardware realm of RISC-V and OpenHW and make you start your own Chip while you are still listening!