Europe Launches €240M RISC-V Supercomputer Chip Project

A consortium of 38 tech companies has launched DARE, a €240 million project to develop RISC-V based processors for Europe's supercomputers and high-performance computing systems. The project will create three chiplets: a vector math accelerator from Openchip, a next-gen inference chiplet from Axelera AI, and a general-purpose processor from Codasip. This initiative aims to bolster Europe's digital sovereignty and competitiveness in the global RISC-V landscape, particularly against the US and China.