EU DARE Project Is Scrambling to Replace Codasip

The European High-Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) and the Digital Autonomy with RISC-V in Europe (DARE) consortium are grappling with significant disruptions following Codasip's s... Read original →

Codasip’s exit from DARE exposes a critical fragility in Europe’s RISC-V stack, triggering a cascade failure across EDA tooling, processor IP, and verification workflows for GPP development. The undisclosed U.S. acquisition of its low-end IP may activate EU Chips Act sovereignty clauses, inflating compliance costs for replacements. Competitors like SiFive and Semidynamics will aggressively fill the void, while Infineon could leverage its IDM position to embed CHERI-based security into AI accelerators. Within 18 months, if EuroHPC fails to deploy a Codasip-independent design platform, European supercomputers risk reliance on non-open GPPs—undermining the very notion of digital autonomy. The core contradiction is clear: Europe demands tech sovereignty but lacks the agile, risk-tolerant capital needed to sustain it.