Telecompaper European Processor Initiative releases first test chip for fabrication Tuesday 1 June 2021 | 09:21 CET | News The European Processor Initiative (EPI), a consortium of 28 partners from 10 European countries tasked with helping the EU achieve independence in HPC chip technologies and HPC infrastructure, has released its EPAC1.0 test chip for fabrication. EPAC (European Processor Accelerators) combines several accelerator technologies specialised for different application areas including the RISC-V Instruction Set Architecture, harnessing open-source resources at hardware architecture and software level, as well as ensuring independence from non-European patented computing technologies. Thank you for visiting Telecompaper Sign up below to get access to the rest of this article and all the telecom news you need.