With RISC-V International, the body controlling the RISC-V instruction set, located in Switzerland for the past five years, RISC-V now has just as much right to call itself indigenous to Europe as does Arm Ltd, the British chip company that finds itself on the other side of the English Channel after the Brexit break up and that is still around 90 percent owned by Japanese conglomerate SoftBank. …
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). …
The European Exascale Processor Memory Node Design (ExaNoDe) project has wrapped up, delivering a prototype multi-chip-module (MCM) that integrates Arm cores, FPGAs, and 3D active interposer/chiplet technology. …
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