SiPearl, a Maison Laffitte, France-based firm constructing high-performance energy-efficient processors for supercomputing and AI, closed its €130m Collection A with a 3rd tranche of €32m.
The third tranche was backed by 2 present traders, EIC Fund and The French State, by way of French Tech Souveraineté which is a part of France 2030 led by the Normal Secretariat for Funding, and a brand new investor, a serious non-public fairness agency, Taiwanese Cathay Enterprise for its first funding in France.
Seed funded by the European Union, SiPearl was launched in January 2020 underneath the auspices of the European Processor Initiative consortium which goals to foster the return of high-performance energy-efficient processor applied sciences in Europe. Since then, the corporate has constructed a processor group of 200 staff in France, Spain, and Italy, arrange its personal sovereign infrastructure with knowledge centres in France outfitted with servers and emulators devoted to semiconductor design. SiPearl has accomplished the conception of essentially the most advanced processor ever designed in Europe, Rhea1. With 80 Arm Neoverse V1 cores, Rhea1 consists of greater than 61bn transistors. A number of weeks in the past, Rhea1 taped-out and was handed off to the world’s main foundry, TSMC in Taïwan, for begin of producing.
Rhea1 will equip the CPU cluster of JUPITER, the primary European exascale supercomputer which is owned by EuroHPC JU and operated by Jülich Supercomputing Centre (Germany). Key element of iconic European collaborative initiatives, Rhea1 will assist guarantee Europe’s technological sovereignty, independence, and competitiveness.
This newest funding spherical helps the industrialization part of Rhea1. It additionally accelerates R&D actions for the launch of next-generation processors that may meet the wants of supercomputing and new market segments, corresponding to knowledge centres, AI, and enterprises, forward of the launch of Collection B in a number of weeks.
FinSMEs
08/07/2025
