{"id":469048,"date":"2026-05-27T05:56:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T05:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/469048\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T05:56:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T05:56:13","slug":"euro-processor-switched-on-for-functional-assessment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/469048\/","title":{"rendered":"Euro-processor switched on for functional assessment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The general availability of the CPU is scheduled for the end of 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-build-content\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-896909 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_2211-150x150.webp\" alt=\"Euro-processor switched on\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Rhea1 will equip the CPU cluster module of JUPITER, Europe\u2019s first exascale supercomputer which is owned by EuroHPC, hosted and operated by J\u00fclich Supercomputing Centre in Germany.<\/p>\n<p>With more than 61 billion transistors (7.8 billion equivalent gates), Rhea1 is the most complex server CPU ever designed in Europe. It includes in a single package:<\/p>\n<p>80 arm Neoverse V1 cores ensuring high compute performance and efficient performance per watt. Each core includes 2 x 256-bit Scalable Vector Extension (SVE) engines, enabling fast vector computations while optimizing area and energy use;<br \/>\nBuilt-in High Bandwidth Memory, with 4 stacks of HBM, to provide a balanced solution ideal for supercomputing, big data and AI Inference applications, which are often memory bandwidth bound;<br \/>\n4 DDR5 interfaces supporting 2 DIMMs Per Channel (2DPC);<br \/>104 lanes of PCIe Gen5 interface: up to 6 x 16 lanes + 2 x 4 lanes;<\/p>\n<p>In addition to performance, customers are targeting it for back-door free and kill switch free security, energy-efficiency, flexibility and a mature software ecosystem.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"image nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.electronicsweekly.com\/news\/products\/microprocessors\/\" target=\"_blank\">See all our Microprocessors content<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The general availability of the CPU is scheduled for the end of 2026. Rhea1 will equip the CPU&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":469049,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2244,61,60,80],"class_list":["post-469048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-eu","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=469048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/469049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}