Conveners
The European Chips Act and the development of European processors for HPC
- Leonardo Flores Añover (DG Connect, European Commission)
On 8 February 2022, the Commission adopted the European Chips Act package, which will support reaching the ambitious goal set to double the EU’s current semiconductors production market share to 20% in 2030. The “Chips for Europe Initiative” is part of the Chips Act and aims to support large-scale technological capacity building and innovation in the Union. The Initiative will support the...
In May 2021 a European working group was established to work out recommendations and a roadmap for European sovereignty in open-source hardware, software and RISC-V technologies. This working group consisted of representatives of large enterprises, SME’s and RTO’s who are strong believers in RISC-V towards high performance computing and embedded applications in multiple application domains,...
SiPearl is the European Company, incorporated in France, that has been created in 2019 to bring to the market the first European HPC general purpose microprocessor, totally designed in Europe. SiPearl is one of the partners of the European Processor Initiative (EPI), one of the most important European projects toward European sovereignty in microelectronics. SiPearl is EPI’s industrial hand...
Over that last 3 decades, we have witnessed a transition from closed software ecosystems being the foundation for HPC, enterprise, and business to open source software ecosystems based on Linux and other software in the stack. The combination of current technology trends, the slowing of Moore’s Law, and cost prohibitive silicon manufacturing inhibit significant power-performance gains by...
