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The announcement of Amazon graviton2 It may well have made AMD and Intel a bit nervous: After all, Amazon is a client of both. Now, the two companies have even greater reasons to be concerned.
Parisian company SiPearl recently announced that it had signed a major deal 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.
The company is supported by the European Commission as part of the European Processors Initiative (EPI) project, which aims to design a low-performance, high-performance microprocessor for the first Europe exascale supercomputer.
Three generations of processors are expected to be delivered in four years, which is a rather ambitious timeline. SiPearl will also rely heavily on the technology of two other French companies: Kalray and Menta.
Although SiPearl will not produce, for the foreseeable future, any consumer-centric products, its roadmap indicates an automotive POC (power over Coax?) AND a central automotive processing unit that may be on the horizon.
So while SiPearl will not yet compete with people like Altra de Ampere, The AMD Epyc Family or Intel Xeon rangeIt is one to watch closely as Europe struggles to build an HPC unit capable of competing with global giants.
