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Ownership: Spain's Council of Ministers approved a SETT investment of over EUR 115m on 29 June 2026.","axes":{"capability":"emerging","jurisdiction":"eu","op_control":"european","substitutability":"hard"},"axes_note":"DARE VEC-chiplet lead; RISC-V gives ISA control the Arm route cannot; first silicon published July 2026, the data-centre accelerator still to come.","roadmap":{"claim":"VEC vector chiplet tape-out within DARE SGA1's three-year run (TSMC 7nm or below)","year":2028,"source":"eeNews Europe","url":"https://www.eenewseurope.com/en/e240m-dare-project-for-ai-risc-v-chiplets/"}},"partners":[{"a":"openchip","b":"suse","label":"MoU: sovereign RISC-V + SUSE stack","year":2026,"src":"SUSE","url":"https://www.suse.com/news/suse-and-openchip-partner-to-develop-sovereign-european-risc-v-hardware-and-open-source-software-stack/","type":"partner"},{"a":"openchip","b":"dare-chiplets","label":"DARE RISC-V chiplets","year":2025,"src":"EuroHPC","url":"https://www.eurohpc-ju.europa.eu/research-innovation/our-projects/dare_en","type":"codev"},{"a":"dare-chiplets","b":"openchip","label":"In the same Horizon Europe consortium: DARE SGA 1","year":2025,"src":"CORDIS","url":"https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101202459","type":"partner"},{"a":"eviden","b":"openchip","label":"In the same Horizon Europe consortium: DARE SGA 1","year":2025,"src":"CORDIS","url":"https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101202459","type":"partner"},{"a":"dare-chiplets","b":"openchip","label":"In the same Horizon Europe consortium: Rigoletto","year":2025,"src":"CORDIS","url":"https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101194371","type":"partner"},{"a":"foundry","b":"openchip","label":"In the same Horizon Europe consortium: Rigoletto","year":2025,"src":"CORDIS","url":"https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101194371","type":"partner"},{"a":"openchip","b":"siemens-eda","label":"In the same Horizon Europe consortium: Rigoletto","year":2025,"src":"CORDIS","url":"https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101194371","type":"partner"}],"org":{"card":"openchip","name":"OpenChip (RISC-V, DARE)","entities":["OPENCHIP SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGIES SL"],"projects":4,"contracted_eu":13666083.54,"first_year":2025,"last_year":2027,"latest":{"acronym":"IMPACT-IT","start":"2027-01-01","url":"https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101312482"},"top":[{"id":"101202459","acronym":"DARE SGA 1","title":"Digital Autonomy for RISC-V in Europe (Specific Grant Agreement 1)","start":"2025-03-01","end":"2028-02-29","signed":"2025-02-18","status":"SIGNED","role":"participant","net_eu":13159583.54,"url":"https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101202459"},{"id":"101214398","acronym":"ELLIOT","title":"European Large Open Multi-Modal Foundation Models For Robust Generalization On Arbitrary Data Streams","start":"2025-07-01","end":"2029-06-30","signed":"2025-05-02","status":"SIGNED","role":"participant","net_eu":326500,"url":"https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101214398"},{"id":"101194371","acronym":"Rigoletto","title":"RISC-V GENERATION OF  HIGH PERFORMANCE AUTOMOTIVE PROCESSORS AND COMPUTING PLATFORMS","start":"2025-07-01","end":"2028-06-30","signed":"2025-05-19","status":"SIGNED","role":"participant","net_eu":180000,"url":"https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101194371"},{"id":"101312482","acronym":"IMPACT-IT","title":"Integrating Voltage-Driven Ionics with Magnetism for Low-Power Memory and Advanced Computing: A  Training Initiative on Energy-Efficient Information Technologies","start":"2027-01-01","end":"2030-12-31","signed":"2026-06-10","status":"SIGNED","role":"associatedPartner","net_eu":0,"url":"https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101312482"}],"search_url":"https://cordis.europa.eu/search?q=contenttype%3D'project'%20AND%20(organizationName%3D'OPENCHIP%20SOFTWARE%20TECHNOLOGIES%20SL')"},"consortia":[{"id":"101202459","acronym":"DARE SGA 1","title":"Digital Autonomy for RISC-V in Europe (Specific Grant Agreement 1)","start":"2025-03-01","status":"SIGNED","url":"https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101202459","cards":["dare-chiplets","eviden","openchip"],"eu_for_cards":79344186.3},{"id":"101194371","acronym":"Rigoletto","title":"RISC-V GENERATION OF  HIGH PERFORMANCE AUTOMOTIVE PROCESSORS AND COMPUTING PLATFORMS","start":"2025-07-01","status":"SIGNED","url":"https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101194371","cards":["dare-chiplets","foundry","openchip","siemens-eda"],"eu_for_cards":2016480.25}],"events":[],"news":[],"cases":[{"id":"dare-sga1","name":"DARE SGA 1 (RISC-V chiplets for European supercomputers)","country":"EU","year":2025,"status":"disbursed","headline":"The only case here with a published payment figure, and it says a quarter: EUR 27,273,351 of the EUR 102,262,283 EU commitment has actually been paid. It is also the case where the money stays in Europe, three firms taking 77.5 per cent of it. Then the EU's own progress report names the foundry, and it is TSMC at 4 nanometres.","chain":[{"role":"funder","entity":"EuroHPC Joint Undertaking (Horizon Europe)","jurisdiction":"EU","amount":102262283.43,"currency":"EUR","disclosed":true,"status":"contracted","date":"2025-02-18","note":"Signed 18 February 2025. Legal commitment JPC.1733605. The project total cost is EUR 239,995,859.50, so EUR 137,733,576.07 is not EU money and CORDIS does not name its source. The EUR 240m figure in most coverage is that total cost, and the EUR 120m sometimes quoted was the ceiling for this call, not the sum contracted.","src":"CORDIS project 101202459","url":"https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101202459"},{"role":"funder","entity":"EuroHPC Joint Undertaking, payments made to date","jurisdiction":"EU","amount":27273351,"currency":"EUR","disclosed":true,"status":"disbursed","date":"2025-12-31","note":"Commitment consumed, financial year 2025, which the Financial Transparency System defines as the sum of payments already made. That is 26.67 per cent of the commitment. The per-beneficiary split published beside it is not real: every one of the 38 rows carries exactly the same 26.670 per cent, and the dataset labels the column estimated. Only the commitment-level figure is a payment.","src":"EU Financial Transparency System, 2025 dataset","url":"https://ec.europa.eu/budget/financial-transparency-system/"},{"role":"instrument","entity":"Specific Grant Agreement, call HORIZON-EUROHPC-JU-2024-DARE-SGA-04-01","jurisdiction":"EU","amount":239995859.5,"currency":"EUR","disclosed":true,"status":"contracted","date":"2025-03-01","note":"Runs 1 March 2025 to 29 February 2028 across 44 listed participants and the coordinator. A specific grant agreement sits under a framework partnership that runs to 2030, so this is phase one of DARE and not the whole of it. The framework total is not published.","src":"CORDIS project 101202459","url":"https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101202459"},{"role":"recipient","entity":"Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC-CNS), coordinator","jurisdiction":"ES","ownership":"Spanish public consortium: national ministry, Generalitat de Catalunya, UPC","amount":4389375,"currency":"EUR","disclosed":true,"status":"contracted","src":"CORDIS project 101202459","url":"https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101202459"},{"role":"recipient","entity":"Codasip (CODASIP GMBH, Germany, and CODASIP S R O, Czechia)","jurisdiction":"EU","amount":35282779,"currency":"EUR","disclosed":true,"status":"contracted","note":"EUR 20,906,937.50 and EUR 14,375,841.50. The largest recipient in the project, 34.5 per cent of the EU contribution, and the lead on the general-purpose processor. On 8 April 2026 Codasip announced it was divesting its low-end RISC-V processor design business, and a broad licence to its processor design tool, to what its own release calls a public US semiconductor company. It does not name the buyer. Both Codasip entities were still listed as participants when CORDIS last updated the page on 25 June 2026.","src":"CORDIS project 101202459; Codasip press release 2026-04-08","url":"https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101202459"},{"role":"recipient","entity":"Axelera AI (BV Netherlands, SRL Italy, and the Belgian entity)","jurisdiction":"EU","amount":30817292.51,"currency":"EUR","disclosed":true,"status":"contracted","note":"EUR 13,541,808.13, EUR 12,274,431.25 and EUR 5,001,053.13. Leads the AI inference chiplet.","src":"CORDIS project 101202459","url":"https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101202459"},{"role":"recipient","entity":"OPENCHIP SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGIES SL","jurisdiction":"ES","ownership":"Spanish; Spain approved a SETT investment of over EUR 115m on 29 June 2026","amount":13159583.54,"currency":"EUR","disclosed":true,"status":"contracted","note":"Leads the RISC-V vector accelerator chiplet. Together the three chiplet firms take EUR 79,259,655.05, or 77.5 per cent of the EU contribution.","src":"CORDIS project 101202459","url":"https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101202459"},{"role":"recipient","entity":"BULL SAS","jurisdiction":"FR","ownership":"French State holding in the Eviden perimeter","amount":84531.25,"currency":"EUR","disclosed":true,"status":"contracted","note":"Europe's only supercomputer factory takes 0.08 per cent of this grant. The map links Bull to DARE, and this is the size of the link.","src":"CORDIS project 101202459","url":"https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101202459"},{"role":"supplier","entity":"TSMC (Taiwan), process node N4C","jurisdiction":"TW","amount":null,"disclosed":false,"role_note":"The EU's own progress report for the first six months states that the project \"selected the chiplet manufacturing technology node to be TSMC N4C\", and that \"the technology node was selected to be at 4 nanometers\". Europe's flagship digital-autonomy chip programme will be manufactured outside Europe, because Europe has no leading-edge fab. The price is not published.","src":"CORDIS periodic reporting, period 1 (2025-03-01 to 2025-08-31)","url":"https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101202459/reporting"},{"role":"supplier","entity":"Unnamed third-party IP vendors for HBM, LPDDR and PCIe","jurisdiction":"unknown","amount":null,"disclosed":false,"role_note":"The same report states the project \"negotiated a bundle deal for indispensable third party glue-IP such as HBM, LPDDR and PCIe\". Indispensable is the report's own word. The vendors are not named anywhere public.","src":"CORDIS periodic reporting, period 1","url":"https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101202459/reporting"}],"profit_lands":["DE","CZ","NL","IT","BE","ES","FR","TW"],"not_public":["Payments per beneficiary. The Financial Transparency System publishes a per-beneficiary consumed figure, but every one of the 38 rows is exactly 26.670 per cent of its contracted amount and the column is labelled estimated. Only the commitment-level EUR 27,273,351 is a payment.","The exact cut-off date of that payment figure. It sits in the 2025 dataset and the portal does not state the day it was measured.","Who provides the EUR 137,733,576.07 of the total cost that is not EU money, and how it splits between the fourteen participating states.","The total value of the framework partnership that runs to 2030. Only this first specific grant agreement has a published figure.","What TSMC is being paid, and any packaging, assembly or test supplier.","The vendors of the HBM, LPDDR and PCIe IP the report calls indispensable.","Whether the sale of Codasip's processor business to a US buyer changes the general-purpose processor workstream. No public source addresses it."],"tests":{"chips2-domestic":"pass","cada4":"n/a","seal4":"n/a"},"confidence":"high","cards":["dare-chiplets","eviden","jupiter","leading-edge-fabs","openchip"]}],"stack_news":{"date":"2026-07-30","headline":"Openchip unveils BER10: first European sovereign RISC-V silicon in hand","source":"Openchip","url":"https://openchip.com/openchip-unveils-ber10-europes-new-sovereign-chip-is-here/"},"mentions":[],"mention_terms":["OpenChip"],"mention_rule":"events, news and cases carry full rows only when the row links the card explicitly (cards[] or related[]). mentions are prose hits: case-sensitive whole-word matches on the card name terms listed in mention_terms, plus case-insensitive matches on the CORDIS legal entity names. The id slug is never matched against prose."}