German and Dutch Strategic Innovation Agencies to Collaborate on AI Chip Design
The agencies will commit €40 million over 20 months to small teams using AI to speed chip design for training and inference.
- The Netherlands' National Agency for Disruptive Innovation and Germany's Federal Agency for Breakthrough Innovation announced a joint €40 million initiative on Wednesday to accelerate computer chip design.
- European efforts to reduce reliance on American technology drive the partnership, combining the Netherlands' chipmaking ecosystem around ASML with Germany's research and manufacturing strengths.
- NADI and SPRIND will commit €40 million over 20 months to small teams using AI to shorten design cycles, seeking what SPRIND's head of challenges Jano Costard called "several orders of magnitude acceleration."
- Comparing current chip use to "doing your shopping with a truck," NADI co-founder Jelle Prins argued that Nvidia chips are inefficient for inference tasks despite their power.
- Following SPRIND's separate €125 million challenge to establish three European frontier-AI labs, the project mirrors efforts by France's AID and Britain's ARIA to foster pan-European breakthroughs.
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NADI, the National Agency for Disruptive Innovation, is making 40 million euros available for teams from the Netherlands and Europe to develop the next energy-efficient AI chips. In addition, the design of these Artificial Intelligence (AI) chips is to be sped up from years to weeks.
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NADI, the National Agency for Disruptive Innovation, is making a total of 40 million euros available to teams from the Netherlands and Europe to develop the next generation of energy-efficient AI chips. The design of these artificial intelligence (AI) chips must also be accelerated from years to weeks.
The development of AI processors is to be faster in Europe. Germany and the Netherlands are now cooperating for this. There is potential, especially in one area.
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