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The European Commission has presented the consortium European Processor Initiative (EPI) to co-design, develop and bring to the market a European low-power microprocessor, one of the core elements needed for the development of the European supercomputers with exascale capacity (i.e. performance of a billion billion or 1018 calculations per second).

Vice President Andrus Ansip, in charge of the Digital Single Market, and Digital Economy and Society Commissioner Mariya Gabriel said: "Thanks to such new European technologies, European scientists and industry will be able to access exceptional levels of energy-efficient computing performance. This will benefit Europe's scientific leadership, industrial competitiveness, engineering skills and know-how and the society as whole."

The consortium gathers experts from the High-Performance Computing (HPC) research community, the major supercomputing centres, the computing and silicon industry representatives as well as the potential scientific and industrial users, a total of 23 partners from ten European countries.

The financial contribution of the European Union to the initiative under the Horizon 2020 programme is expected to be around €120 million. Specific grant agreements to support the consortium will be published later this year.

Further details about the consortium are available here.

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