It’s the second time that Bull has been nationalized: The primary time, in 1982 was to reserve it from chapter.
Atos, has had monetary troubles of its personal. In August 2024, it tried — and failed — to sell its legacy infrastructure management business. The corporate had already staved off possible bankruptcy because of some refinancing from banks and the French authorities. That was after it had contemplated selling its IT security business.
Bull nonetheless retains some pedigree. As a part of Atos subsidiary Eviden it constructed Jupiter, the world’s fourth most-powerful computer at time of writing, with a computing capability of 1 exaflop (1 billion billion floating-point operations per second). Additionally it is a member of a consortium constructing Europe’s second exa-scale computing system, Alice Recoque, due for supply in 2027.
