Europe’s Chips Act 2.0 Must Embrace the ‘Next Computing Paradigm’
Nov. 26, 2025 –
The European Union’s ambitious drive for technological sovereignty is entering a critical second phase. With the original Chips Act having successfully mobilized capital—total commitments reached nearly €69 billion—the subsequent phase, Chips Act 2.0, must fundamentally shift focus from headline-grabbing factory commitments to securing the next generation of computing architecture and talent.
This strategic pivot finds its intellectual anchor in the HiPEAC Vision 2025, a roadmap arguing that Europe’s future relevance depends not merely on manufacturing silicon wafers, but on mastering the distributed, sustainable computing paradigm that Artificial Intelligence (AI) now demands.
This recalibration is made urgent by the reality of the U.S. “Great Reallocation,” where aggressive trade policy and massive subsidies are pulling European corporate champions, their capital, and their intellectual property across the Atlantic, straining Europe’s indigenous industrial base.
The HiPEAC Vision, setting out a course for European computing research over the next decade, centers on the concept of the Next Computing Paradigm (NCP). The NCP represents a crucial convergence of the computing continuum, spanning high-performance exascale computing, cloud data centers, and embedded devices, redefining how systems interact. HiPEAC views this shift as a dynamic collection of “federated and distributed services” that operate across this continuum.