European RISC-V chip gets closer

he European Processor Initiative (EPI) is a project made up of 28 partners from 10 EU countries, including the) that samples of its EPAC1.0 RISC-V Test Chip have now been delivered, and initial tests look to have been very promising. Based on the RISC-V open source architecture, the chip is made up of power-efficient and high-throughput accelerator cores named EPAC (European Processor Accelerators). The 22nm test chips were made at GlobalFoundries, which used to be part of AMD, and it means the EU joins a growing list of countries and governments that are turning to RISC-V to create their own processors.