SiPearl, a brand new France-based firm that’s being backed and receiving grants from the European Comission’s European Processor Initiative mission, has introduced that’s has licensed Arm’s next-generation Neoverse processor, codename Zeus.
SiPearl continues to be in its infancy because it’s solely been based in January of this yr, however the brand new firm has lofty targets because it goals to be the design home for Europe’s HPC targets.
Maisons-Laffitte, France, 21 April 2020 – SiPearl, the corporate that’s designing the high-performance, low-power microprocessor for the European exascale supercomputer, has signed a significant technological licensing settlement with Arm, the worldwide semiconductor IP supplier. The settlement will allow SiPearl to profit from the high-performance, safe, and scalable next-generation Arm® Neoverse™ platform, codenamed ‶Zeusʺ, in addition to leverage the sturdy software program and {hardware} Arm ecosystem.
Taking benefit of the Arm “Zeus” platform, together with Arm’s POP™ IP, on superior FinFET2 expertise permits SiPearl to speed up its design and guarantee excellent reliability for a really highend providing, when it comes to each computing energy and power effectivity, and be able to launch its first era of microprocessors in 2022.
The announcement as we speak extra particularly covers the corporate’s licensing cope with Arm – saying that they are going to be utilizing the brand new “Zeus” core. Zeus follows up on the Neoverse N1 core “Ares”, and ought to be the infrastructure sibling to Arm’s Cortex-A77 cellular cores.
On the EPI web site, the EC additionally particulars a roadmap of the mission, with the element of “N6” alongside the Zeus core description, which doubtless means the chip will probably be designed on TSMC’s N6 course of node – an improved and advanced variant of the producers N7 node which retains design compatibility.
The mission is one other increase to the Arm server ecosystem after the most recent success of Amazon’s Graviton2 chip in addition to Ampere’s announcement of the Altra platform which we’ll be seeing in a number of months’ time.
