The announcement of Amazons Graviton2 may well have made AMD and Intel a little nervous - Amazon is, after all, a customer of both. Now, the two companies have even greater reason to be worried.<\/p>\n
AnandTech reports that Parisian company SiPearl recently announced it had signed a major agreement with semiconductor giant ARM. The French firm will use ARM IP (Zeus Neoverse CPU) to develop a new set of CPUs: Rhea, Chronos and another unnamed model.<\/p>\n
The company is backed by the European Commission as part of the European Processor Initiative (EPI) project, which aims to design a high performance, low power microprocessor for Europes first exascale supercomputer.<\/p>\n
Three generations of processors are expected to be delivered in four years, which is a rather ambitious timeline. SiPearl will also be heavily dependent on technology from two other French companies: Kalray and Menta.<\/p>\n
Although SiPearl will not, for the foreseeable future, produce any consumer-focused products, its roadmap gestures towards an automotive POC (power over Coax?) and an automotive central processing unit that could be on the horizon.<\/p>\n
So, while SiPearl won't compete just yet with the likes of Amperes Altra, AMDs Epyc family or Intels Xeon range, it's one to keep a close eye on as Europe wrestles to build an HPC unit capable of competing with global giants.<\/p>\n
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