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Our press releases
All the press releases published
since the operational launch of the company in January 2020.

Vivian Blanchard
VP Hardware R&D
4 May 2023
He supports the growth of the hardware research & development team to finalize the design of the 1st generation microprocessor.

Initial closing of the Series A
with €90m
5 April 2023
Key industry partners (Arm, Eviden) as well as European and French public investors (EIB, EIC, France 2030) participate to this initial funding round.

Collaboration with AMD to address exascale supercomputing in Europe
14 November 2022
The two partners will provide a joint offering combining SiPearl’s HPC microprocessor, Rhea, with AMD’s Instinct™ accelerators.

Sebastien Kamphuis,
Chief Information Officer
25 October 2022
Previously with Engie, Capgemini and Bouygues Telecom, he has developed a deep experience in IT infrastructure service.

SiPearl Grenoble on track
to increase its workforce
12 July 2022
[Only in French] En emménageant dans le quartier Europole, la société se rapproche également des écoles d’ingénieurs INP-Phelma, INP Ense3 et Polytech Grenoble.

SiPearl: 1st direct investment
by EIC Fund
14 June 2022
As a winner of the EIC Accelerator program last December, SiPearl is the 1st direct investment of the EIC Fund for €15 M and also €2.5 M of grants.

Strategic partnership
with HPE
30 May 2022
They partner to develop HPC solutions with European processors and accelerate Europe’s adoption of exascale supercomputers.

Collaboration with NVIDIA
for a joint offering
29 Mai 2022
The two partners will provide a joint offering combining SiPearl HPC microprocessors with NVIDIA accelerated computing and networking portfolio.
More than
100 employees
17 May 2022
The company currently employs 104 microelectronics and software specialists. In order to reach its objective of 1,000 employees in 2025, it is stepping up its recruitment strategy.
Pierre Marchal,
Chief Financial Officer
28 April 2022
Previously with Saint-Gobain, where he spent most of his career, then with Keolis and SNCF, he distinguished himself in financial and international positions to support the growth.

SiPearl awarded a €17.5m funding from EIC Accelerator
16 December 2021
This funding (€2.5m grant and up to €15m in equity investments subscribed by EIC Fund) will support the development and scale-up of SiPearl future-generation microprocessor.
Collaboration with Intel
to accelerate exascale in Europe
27 October 2021
This partnership will offer European customers the possibility to combine SiPearl’s CPU Rhea with Intel’s GPU Ponte Vecchio making a high-performance compute node.
Marie-Anne Garigue,
Head of Communications
21 October 2021
(In French) Within the agency Mag and co, she had advised Philippe Notton, CEO and founder of SiPearl, for his media and public relations since the launch of the company.
Grenoble: 50 engineers
by the end of 2022
28 September 2021
SiPearl is targeting senior and junior engineering positions in microprocessor design, including engineers for digital design, verification, layout, DFT, process and production.
Laure Perfetti,
Head of Human Ressources
7 September 2021
Laure’s career to date has been with STMicroelectronics. Prior joining SiPearl, she was Human Resources Business Partner in the microcontrollers and digital ICs group.
Sophia-Antipolis:
4th opening in Europe
27 July 2021
(In French) SiPearl, which recently launched its recruitment strategy, is continuing to open sites in the heart of semiconductor technology and high-performance computing skill pools.
Jean-Marc Denis,
Chief Strategy Officer
6 July 2021
Previously, he was Head of Strategy, Big Data and Security within the Atos group. As such, he chaired the European Processor Initiative (EPI) consortium from which SiPearl was born.
Anna Riverola,
Spain Country Manager
22 June 2021
SiPearl has chosen Barcelona in order to be closer to its partners in Southern Europe, including the Barcelona Supercomputing Center where Anna Riverola was previously Strategic Project Manager.
Strategic partnership
with Graphcore
15 June 2021
Under the terms of the agreement, SiPearl and Graphcore will develop integrated hardware and software solutions that will combine the best of their respective technologies.
Launch of the recruitment
campaign
27 April 2021
With a view to reaching 1,000 staff by 2025, SiPearl initially aims to recruit 10 engineers every month. The company is committed to promoting diversity.
Simulation using
Siemens’ Veloce platform
11 March 2021
While the architecture definition of its high-performance microprocessor Rhea has been approved, SiPearl has passed a key milestone by moving into an accelerated simulation phase.
Collaboration
with Open-Silicon Research
23 February 2021
SiPearl will rely on Open-Silicon Research’s expertise in deep-submicron physical design implementation, advanced 2.5D packaging and global supply chain management of Rhea.
SiPearl joins
ETP4HPC think-tank
22 December 2020
SiPearl has become a member of the ETP4HPC think-tank, whose mission is to develop the competitiveness of European technologies for high performance computing.
SiPearl joins
the CXLTM consortium
22 October 2020
SiPearl has joined the consortium, whose founding members are Alibaba, Cisco, Dell EMC, Facebook, Google, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Huawei, Intel and Microsoft.
SiPearl, guest speaker
at the TSMC forum
30 July 2020
Ying-Chih Yang, Craig Prunty and Dr Selma Laabidi, Arm Product Expert, had led a conference on “Accelerating HPC market adoption with Arm Neoverse POPTM IP”.
Frédéric Hannoyer,
Chief Operating Officer
2 July 2020
Previously, this electronics and semiconductor industry executive headed design and R&D services activities for Eolane and its dedicated product division for IoT.
Craig Prunty,
VP Marketing & Development
9 June 2020
Previously, this business development and product marketing expert in the global HPC market was Marketing Director for Marvell Semiconductor’s server processors business unit.
1st subsidiary
in Germany
26 May 2020
Currently a dedicated R&D centre, the subsidiary headed by Frank Gorris will also become a regional hub providing support for connected mobility and HPC applications.
Major license agreement
with Arm
21 April 2020
SiPearl has signed a licensing agreement with Arm, the global semiconductor IP provider, in which SiPearl will use the high-performance, secure, and scalable Arm Neoverse platform.
Ying-Chih Yang,
Chief Technical Officer
9 March 2020
Prior joining SiPearl, he was Global Architect with Atos from July 2018, in charge of the design of the high-performance architecture for the future European microprocessor.
Launch with €6.2m
of European funding
11 February 2020
SiPearl has been awarded €6.2m of support from Europe under the Horizon 2020 programme. These funds are enabling the company to launch its development with solid foundations in place.
Operational launch
of SiPearl
21 January 2020
Created by Philippe Notton, SiPearl is designing and bringing to market the high-performance, low-power microprocessor for the European exascale supercomputer.
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