Longtime HN user morphle, who commented elsewhere in this thread, has researched and designed chips and hardware for that purpose (edit: for scaling that form of computing). He has been trying to find funds and partners to bring them to market.
Disclaimer: never met or spoken or worked with him
Morphle here. Thanks for mentioning our work [1]. We still seek funders and students we can teach.
We build on the shoulders of the generation that built Smalltalk but just retired. There is a huge amount of documentation, science papers and talks on how to implement it all.
We are starting to implement the final step: An autonomous European secure operating system running a hierarchy of Virtual Machines (message passing parallel bytecode Smalltalk, Lisp, Erlang) and Qemu VMs with a modern GUI in less than 30.000 lines of source code that can be fully understood by a single person.
We improved our hardware to a manicore European Morphle Engine processor architecture that can run microcode, bytecodes, X86, Arm, Risc-V and other Qemu supported processors faster than the native chips.
We have some funding from Ukrainian drone innovators that need cheap computer chips manufactured in Europe, not controlled by the US or China.
We hope the European Autonomy movement away from US Big Tech clouds, operating systems, surveillance and chips with political kill switches and backdoors built in will fund our operating system and app software.
Disclaimer: never met or spoken or worked with him