Intel and the Barcelona Supercomputing Center recently announced they would invest 400 million euros to develop processors based on the RISC-V instruction set architecture and build Zettascale Supercomputers. The lab will focus not just on the CPUs of the next generation of supercomputers, but also on processors for AI applications and auto-pilot cars.

Meanwhile, the European Processor Program (EPI) has successfully completed its first three-year phase to provide multi-core chip designs for supercomputers and cars. The project completes the transition from ARM to RISC-V, by using RISC-V for embedded high-performance microcontrollers for automotive applications. The successful completion of the first phase SGA1 paved the way for the second phase of the project. The collaboration was made by 28 partners from 10 European countries, covering various areas like hardware test platforms, massively parallel array accelerators, software ecosystems, and so on, aiming to achieve the independence of high-performance computing (HPC) chip technology.