Digital Autonomy with RISC-V in Europe, Special Agreement 1
DARE (Digital Autonomy with RISC-V in Europe) is an ambitious initiative driving Europe’s independence in high-performance computing and AI. The project will address Europe’s deficit in digital autonomy, by creating truly European hardware and software products to build European supercomputers for research and industry.
DARE is set to create three new European designed and owned computing chips:
- a vector accelerator (VEC) for high-performance scientific and engineering simulations;
- an AI Processing Unit (AIPU) designed for AI-powered applications like language processing and data analysis;
- a General-Purpose Processor (GPP) optimised for high-performance computing tasks.
These chips will power next-generation European supercomputers. They will help researchers to tackle critical scientific challenges such as drug discovery, climate change modelling, and renewable energy solutions, as well as societal challenges such as the detection of synthetic, AI-generated content. By developing Europe’s own processors and computing stack, the project will pave the way for future generations of supercomputers that are designed, built, and optimised in Europe. All of these groundbreaking developments will be based on the RISC-V standard instruction set architecture, characterised by its openness and free availability to industry and academic research alike.
