Notre vision
Parce que relever des défis majeurs pour l’Europe dans la défense, la sécurité, la santé, l’énergie ou le climat nécessite de traiter en une fraction de seconde des volumes colossaux de données stratégiques, SiPearl développe des microprocesseurs souverains haute performance et basse consommation, sans backdoor ni kill switch, dédiés au supercalcul, à l’intelligence artificielle et aux centres de données.
Dans un contexte géopolitique complexe, nous contribuons ainsi à la souveraineté technologique de l’Europe dans les domaines scientifiques, sociétaux et environnementaux avec une empreinte carbone réduite.
SiPearl in a nutshell
Spécialiste fabless de la conception de semi-conducteurs, SiPearl développe des microprocesseurs européens haute performance et basse consommation pour le supercalcul, l’intelligence artificielle et les centres de données. Ces microprocesseurs permettront de relever des défis stratégiques à usage dual dans les domaines de la sécurité, la défense, la recherche médicale, l’énergie, le climat et l’ingénierie avec une empreinte carbone réduite.
SiPearl contribue ainsi à la souveraineté technologique de l’Europe.
SiPearl, concepteur
de microprocesseurs européens
Created by Philippe Notton in June 2019, SiPearl is the company bringing to life the European Processor Initiative (EPI) project. The aim of EPI is to foster the deployment in Europe of high-performance and low-power microprocessor technologies. Privately held, SiPearl is supported by the European Union. It is established in France, Germany, Italy and Spain.
SiPearl is designing and will bring to market the European microprocessor that will help Europe’s supercomputers to achieve exascale(*) power. It works to through close collaboration with its 30 partners from EPI consortium – scientific community, supercomputing centres and leading names from the IT, electronics and automotive sectors – which are its stakeholders, future clients and end-users.
(*): One billion billion calculations per second.
Timeline
Operational launch
with €7.4m European Union funding
Created in June 2019 as a European company, SiPearl moves into its operational phase with €7.4m funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under specific grant agreement no.826647.
The company launches the design of its first generation microprocessor, Rhea1.
Major licensing agreement
with ARM
Aux termes de cet accord de licence, SiPearl bénéficie de la plateforme haute performance, évolutive et sûre Arm Neoverse V1 ainsi que du robuste écosystème logiciel et matériel du fournisseur mondial de technologies semi-conducteurs.
La plateforme Arm Neoverse V1 donne à SiPearl les moyens de concevoir avec une grande fiabilité sa première génération de microprocesseurs.
SiPearl opens a new R&D centre
in Barcelona
SiPearl opens its second international R&D centre in the capital of Catalonia. The company thus becomes closer to its partners in Southern Europe, including the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC).
Previously Strategic Project Manager at BSC, Anna Riverola is appointed as the head of SiPearl SL.
Series-A intial closing with €90m
to launch Rhea1
Investors are:
- Arm,
- Atos Group, through its Eviden business,
- European Innovation Council (EIC) Fund (€15m),
- The French State, via French Tech Souveraineté.
The financing includes up to €25m in convertible debt from the European Investment Bank (EIB).
JUPITER, le 1er contrat emblématique de SiPearl
SiPearl wins an emblematic contract to equip the first Exascale supercomputer in Europe. Named JUPITER, this EuroHPC JU supercomputing infrastructure will be operated by Forschungszentrum Jülich.
It will be built by a consortium composed of Eviden (the Atos Group business leading in advanced computing) and ParTec (the German modular supercomputing company). The expected budget is €273m.
2ème closing de la Série A pour 23 M€
This €15m second round of financing was subscribed by:
- the French State, via French Tech Souveraineté -as part of the Plan France 2030-
- and Arm.
It includes a €8m loan syndicated by Caisse d’Epargne Rhône Alpes.
SiPearl s’implante en Italie
To open its R&D centre in Italy, SiPearl chose Bologna, at the heart of a leading region in supercomputing and AI, with the University of Bologna, Cineca -Italy’s largest supercomputing centre-, and ECMWF.
Matteo Tonelli, previously responsible for external relations and partnerships at ANRT, is Country Manager for Italy.
Closing de la Série A de 130 M€
Tape-Out de Rhea1
After raising a third and final tranche of €32 million from existing investors, EIC Fund and France 2030 via French Tech Souveraineté, and a new investor, the Taiwanese private equity firm Cathay Venture, SiPearl has secured €130 million. It is the largest Series A round in the European fabless semiconductor industry.
Previously, the company completed the design of its first processor, Rhea1. It is currently manufactured by the world leader in independent foundries, TSMC, in Taiwan.
SiPearl sélectionnée pour équiper Alice Recoque
EuroHPC JU et le consortium Jules Verne (GENCI, CEA, SURF, GRNT) ont attribué le contrat du supercalculateur Alice Recoque à Bull. Deuxième supercalculateur exascale européen, il sera installé au TGCC du CEA à Bruyères-le-Châtel, près de Paris.
Alice Recoque intégrera une partition de calcul scalaire composée de microprocesseurs Rhea2.
Notre écosystème
They support us
Depuis son lancement opérationnel en janvier 2020, SiPearl est soutenue financièrement par la Commission Européenne dans le cadre du programme Horizon Europe.
La société bénéficie également du soutien du Conseil Européen de l’Innovation (EIC) dans le cadre de son programme EIC Accelerator, de l’Etat français via France 2030 ainsi que d’investisseurs corporate et financiers parmi lesquels Arm, Eviden et Cathay Venture Inc (Taïwan).
Among our technological partnerships
SiPearl has established key partnerships with leading IP providers. Our company is the only European licensee to use ARM Neoverse V1 platform andbenefits from ARM robust software ecosystem. This partnership with the global semiconductor IP provider accelerates the design of a very high-end offering in terms of both computing power and energy efficiency.
SiPearl also selected Siemens Digital Industries Software for its Veloce Strato emulation platform, Ansys for validation of semiconductor power integrity and minimization of power consumption, Synopsys…
Manufacturing will initially be entrusted to the Taiwanese TSMC, first independant semiconductor foundry for an etching 6nm or better.
Our partners
in the HPC ecosystem
Sipearl has established two partnerships with two leader manufacturers: Eviden, the next-gen technology leader in data-driven, trusted and sustainable digital transformation, and HPE, the global leader
To best meet the expectations of its end-users, SiPearl collaborates with AMD for its Instinct™ accelerators and Intel for Ponte Vecchio GPU family and NVIDIA for its accelerated computing and networking portfolio.
Organizations we belong to
SiPearl is a member of many technology consortiums, such as ANRT, which gathers public and private actors in research and development, France Digitale, the leading startup and investor association, France Deeptech, the community which gathers together actors in deeptech and Teratec, the European competence center for high-performance digital simulation. SiPearl is also a member of Systematic, the European Deeptech cluster, JEDI Foundation, European funding agency, PlayFrance.digital, collective which brings together more than 300 French digital players, GIM, professional industrial organization of Ile-de-France and of Industrial Alliance on Processors and Semiconductor Technologie. The company is also a member of the ETP4HPC think tank dedicated to research and innovation in European high performance computing to further Europe’s competitiveness. It’s also a member of Minalogic, the digital technology cluster for France’s Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, GSA, organization dedicated to semiconductors, and GEBS, network which highlights company directors.
Our commitment to sustainable growth
By giving Europe the means for early detection of diseases, to fight climate change more effectively, to produce better quality goods and services, the high-performance, low-power processors developed by SiPearl will bring important environmental, social and societal benefits.
SiPearl has published its carbon footprint report for 2024, produced in collaboration with Greenly. It stands at 3,600 tonnes of CO2, or 19 tonnes per person.