Axelera AI launches Europa chip, makes hardware available in Dell and Supermicro servers
Now shipping in Dell XE5 and Supermicro 111AD servers
News - Europe, Charlotte Trueman, DatacenterDynamics
The latest news from the AI, data center, telco, chip, and cloud sector
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Dutch AI chip startup Euclyd raises $231 million in funding round co-led by Samsung
Former ASML CEO Peter Wennink has also joined as chairman of the board
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Bull awarded €31m contract with AEMET to deliver infrastructure for weather forecasting supercomputer
System will be hosted across two sites in Madrid
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TSMC and Samsung commit to adopting ASML’s High NA EUV lithography tools by 2030
Companies will also be joined by Intel for 12-inch photomask industry initiative
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Fujitsu develops diamond-spin quantum computer that incorporates tin-vacancy centers
Company claims this approach provides benefits over traditional nitrogen-vacancy centers
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Quantum Motion secures additional investment in extended $160m Series C funding round
Five new investors have participated in the round
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Bull selected to deliver AMD-powered Lumi-AI supercomputer
AI supercomputer slated for deployment in H2 2027
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EuroHPC JU puts out six calls to advance quantum technologies across the continent
Focus on trapped-ion, superconducting, neutral-atom quantum computing, QKD, quantum testing, and experimental pilot lines
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French quantum computing firm Pasqal completes SPAC merger and goes public
Deal with Bleichroeder Acquisition Corp. II has provided Pasqal with approximately $360 million in cash
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Nebius expands European presence, announces deployment in Estonia and second data center in Mäntsälä, Finland
Announcements made alongside company’s Q2 2026 results
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Axelera AI announces “new product naming framework” for its Edge AI chips
Hardware will now be identified by what they are optimized for
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Velox, I/ONX HPC to deploy 7,000 FuriosaAI RNGD accelerators at Swedish data center
Data center expected to have a total eventual capacity of 15MW
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Chip startup Olix raises $312m at $3.3bn valuation, backed by UK gov’t Sovereign AI venture fund
Company is developing suite of specialized inference chips which will be linked by a photonic interconnect
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EU puts out call for tender for seven supercomputing clusters
The Union says its ‘AI gigafactory’ project will unlock at least €20 billion in private investment
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EuroHPC JU puts out call for tender for Italian industrial supercomputer dubbed Innovate
Tender has an estimated value of €11.6m
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ASML posts Q2 net sales of €9.3bn, reveals Intel Panther Lake chip deal
Company’s CEO says strength of sales has led ASML to look into increasing EUV capacity over next two years
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Intel to invest $5.7bn in Irish fab to expand Xeon production capacity
Upgrades at the site will include installation of “leading-edge manufacturing equipment”
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Finland’s Lumi AI Factory to deploy IQM Halocene H4 quantum computer
System set to be delivered in 2027
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Data center housing UK’s Dawn supercomputer suffers heatwave-related outage – report
Claimed that the incident was caused by failure of the facility’s cooling infrastructure
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Legrand delivers Nvidia-powered supercomputer to Armenia’s Yerevan State University
System was installed in retrofitted university buildings
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IQM completes SPAC merger with RAAQ, begins trading on Nasdaq
Company announced plans to go public in February
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Construction begins on buildings to house new national supercomputer in Edinburgh
System will be housed in the Midlothian area
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AlpSemi raises €17m for development of wide-bandgap power switches for AI data centers
Round was led by Yotta Capital with participation from SE Ventures, Navitas Semiconductor, and Cycle Group
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Lenovo partners with the University of Southampton for Nvidia-powered supercomputer
Will support the university’s ambitions of deploying a Top500-ranked system
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European Commission unveils Chips Act 2.0 to further strengthen chip industry across the continent
Builds on progress made by legislation the bloc first introduced in 2023
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Quantinuum debuts on Nasdaq at $68 share as market cap tops $15.7bn
Raised $1.68 billion from the sale of 28 million shares
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QuiX Quantum launches rack-mounted photonic control unit
Can support up to 1,000 low-speed and up to 32 high-speed phase shifters
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French startup Quobly raises €115m for silicon-based quantum computers
Investors include Bpifrance, STMicroelectronics, and the European Innovation Council