The official announcement noted that the companies share a common goal: to offer a sovereign high performance energy efficient compute solution capable of supporting major European initiatives, both public and private, including AI Factory and Giga Factory programmes. Semidynamics and SiPearl will coordinate their marketing and sales efforts to jointly pursue European procurement opportunities.
According to the announcement, this joint platform will bring together core European technologies. SiPearl’s Arm® based CPU will provide general-purpose compute, orchestration and data plane hosting, while Semidynamics’ RISC V based graphics processing unit (GPU) / AI inference application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) will act as the main acceleration engine for AI inference workloads and enable future performance scaling. The companies expect to offer a rack-scale system delivering the density expected from leading global AI platforms. The rack design will be based on Open Compute Project (OCP) standards, supporting interoperability and alignment with established cloud and data centre infrastructure practices.
‘SiPearl is thrilled to see the impact of years of work in the European Processor Initiative and the EU sovereign ecosystem come to fruition with this platform. It demonstrates the systematic progress that Semidynamics and SiPearl have made individually and collectively and will showcase the best of both companies, CPU and accelerator,’ said Philippe Notton, SiPearl’s chief executive and founder, and a HiPEAC member.
‘We are delighted to work with SiPearl and to offer a European CPU as part of our AI inference platform,’ said Roger Espasa, the chief executive of Semidynamics, and also a HiPEAC member. ‘Combining SiPearl’s high-performance CPU with Semidynamics’ RISC-V-based GPU/AI inference technology gives Europe a credible path towards sovereign, rack-scale AI infrastructure built around European-controlled compute.’
