European Processor Initiative finishes second stage

May 7, 2026 -

As the EPI completes its second stage, it speaks to some of its project partners to find out more about the processors being developed by the project

European Processor Initiative, a project of 27 partners from ten countries working on developing a low-power processor that will power European exascale supercomputers, finished last month, after two stages of a special Framework Partnership Agreement. Even though the official period of project duration is over, project stream leaders are still steering considerable IPs of consortium partners’ work towards final results.

It started out as an initiative to help bring about European digital sovereignty after winning the FPA call from the largest funding programme for research and innovation in 2017, Horizon 2020. EPI consortium members aimed to develop a processor that would power supercomputers achieving exascale: a high-performance, low-power processor implementing vector instructions and specific accelerators with high-bandwidth memory access. The second stage started in 2022, with two processor families being developed under EPI: an Arm-based General-Purpose Processor (Rhea GPP) and the European accelerator (EPAC).

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