Designing chips and shepherding them through the foundry and package and assembly is a complex and difficult process, and not having these skills at a national level has profound implications for the competitiveness of those nations. …
UPDATED: The EuroHPC Joint Undertaking, which is steering the development and funding for pre-exascale and exascale supercomputing in the European Union, has had a busy week. …
In a post Moore’s Law world, domain specific hardware is becoming more common. …
The European Processor Initiative (EPI) has pinned its hopes on RISC-V as the path to European semiconductor independence. …
Europe is known for taking its own routes in almost every segment and supercomputing is no different. …
Europe is trailing the other major HPC powers in its quest to field exascale supercomputers. …
It is now pretty much assured that the first three pre-exascale systems being installed in the European Union will not be powered by processors being developed under the European Processor Initiative (EPI). …
It has been a long time since Europe has had indigenous suppliers of the core components that go into high performance computing systems. …
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