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Europa AIPU

Process more. Achieve more.

Where server performance meets the edge.

Europa extends beyond ultra-low-power solutions to support enterprise servers, multi-user Gen AI, robotics, and automotive infotainment1 applications with 629 TOPS and integrated pre- and post-processing.

What is Europa?

Europa extends AI capabilities to edge servers and unlocks AI applications that more compact devices can’t handle. Consolidate workloads across facilities, deploy robotics and autonomous systems, and run complex models locally without datacenter infrastructure. Process in real-time and scale your operations from a single deployment.

Axelera AI Europa AIPU in hands of Fabrizio Del Maffeo CEO

Gen AI

Gen AI

Run generative AI applications serving multiple concurrent users from a single edge server

Computer Vision

Computer Vision

Consolidate video analytics and AI workloads from multiple locations for centralized processing

Robotics

Robotics

Deploy robotics and autonomous systems, and run complex models locally without datacenter infrastructure

What’s New in Europa?


 

8 Highly Optimized 2nd Generation AI Processing Units (AIPU)

 

629 TOPS   45 Watts TDP   INT4/INT8/INT16
 


 

16 RISC-V Vector Processing Cores

 

Fully on-board Pre/Post Processing   Frees CPU for Business Logic
 


 

Upgrade Memory

 

128MB L2 SRAM   200GB/s DRAM Bandwidth
 


 

Expanded SOTA Model Support

 

Continually Expanding SDK   Increased Programmability
 


 

Onboard Video Decoder

 

Minimize data movement, optimizes for vision-based neural networks
 


 

Performance

 

3-5x Performance/$ over competition   2-3x Performance/W over competition
 
What’s New in Europa?

Industry Applications for Europa

How Europa Stacks up to Comparable Leading Competitor Platforms

How Europa Stacks up to Comparable Leading Competitor Platforms

8
+

Times Tokens per Second per Dollar

25
%

of the Cost

See Europa in Action: Context-Aware Video Analytics at the Edge

Type what you are looking for. Europa's AI acceleration powers on-device video search in plain language, running QWEN3-VL-8B. All inference runs locally on Europa with no pre-labelling, no data leaving the device, and no cloud infrastructure required.

 Performance per Dollar (Higher is better)Competitor 1Competitor 2Europa - 1ChipEuropa - 4ChipLLAMA3 8BLLAMA3 70BLLAMA3.2 11B Vision012345671111.31.011.13.094.5433.966.113.84
 
 Performance per Watt (Higher is better)Competitor 1Competitor 2Europa - 1ChipEuropa - 4ChipLLAMA3 8BLLAMA3 70BLLAMA3.2 11B Vision00.511.522.533.541111.2911.092.33.372.232.043.151.98
 
 FPS ComparisonEuropa FPSCompetitor 3ResNet50(224x224)YOLOv5m(640x640)YOLOv5s(640x640)YOLOv8s(640x640)YOLOv8l(640x640)02,0004,0006,0008,00010,00012,00014,0001316818704011285097510538100113541788512
 
 FPS/$ ComparisonEuropa FPS/$Competitor 3ResNet50(224x224)YOLOv5m(640x640)YOLOv5s(640x640)YOLOv8s(640x640)YOLOv8l(640x640)05101520253026.33.78.05.72.05.30.50.70.90.3
 

Europa is gaining traction already

The Ultralytics YOLO family of models has set the industry standard for computer vision globally. The performance we've achieved running YOLO models on Axelera AI's Metis platform has been remarkable, delivering the speed and efficiency our users demand for real-world computer vision applications. Our collaboration has proven that advanced AI inference can be both powerful and accessible. With Europa's expanded capabilities coming next year, we're excited to broaden YOLO's deployment across entirely new use cases.

Ultralytics

Glenn Jocher
CEO

IT4LIA’s AI Factory initiative is a strategic cornerstone in building a sovereign European infrastructure for artificial intelligence. Our collaboration with Axelera AI within the DARE project reflects our commitment to integrating advanced European technologies into national HPC environments. We are ready to host and validate Axelera’s Europa accelerators within our infrastructure, supporting their deployment in real-world, high-performance AI workloads. This partnership... [read more]

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Daniele Cesarini
Head of AI/HPC Architecture

Advantech has successfully integrated Axelera AI's Metis AIPU into our products, bringing efficient AI processing to customers worldwide. The real-world performance and reliability have exceeded expectations, enabling breakthrough applications in manufacturing automation and intelligent infrastructure. We're thrilled to support the Europa launch and look forward to incorporating its 629 TOPS of processing... [read more]

Advantech

Joey Hsu
Embedded ECG Director

At SURF, we empower researchers with world-class digital services and drive innovation through collaboration. Our partnership with Axelera AI, using Metis in SURF’s Experimental Technologies Platform and exploring Europa, reflects our excitement for emerging AI technologies that have the potential to transform research.

SURF

Valeriu Codreanu
Head of High-Performance Computing and Visualization

This production exemplifies Samsung's commitment to empowering AI innovation across the globe. By manufacturing Axelera AI's breakthrough architecture with our competitive 5nm process technology, we're enabling the next generation of edge AI applications that will transform industries from manufacturing to healthcare. This engagement demonstrates how Korean semiconductor excellence can support European AI innovation.

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Taejoong Song
Vice president of Foundry Technology Planning Team

As a company at the forefront of AI innovation, Almawave is excited to collaborate with Axelera AI on the launch of Europa. By combining Axelera’s next-generation inference platform with our expertise in developing cutting-edge AI applications and our proprietary language model Velvet, we can deliver powerful, accessible, and energy-efficient solutions to our customers. This partnership reinforces our shared commitment to bringing advanced AI to the Edge, with real impact across industries’

Almawave

Valeria Sandei
CEO Almawave Spa

As the leading provider of AI-software, Multiverse prides itself on partnering with the very best technology companies to enable our solutions. Axelera AI is building world-class hardware that powers the most performant and energy efficient AI inference solutions around the globe. Their next generation of hardware, Europa, will be a welcome addition to our infrastructure as we pursue our mission to make AI faster, cheaper and more energy efficient.

Multiverse Computing

Rodrigo Hernandez
Global Director of Gen AI

E4 Computer Engineering is widely renown as being leader on integrating the latest technology solutions. We are testing Metis from Axelera AI and are very impressed with its capabilities as well as of the support provided by the Voyager SDK. We firmly believe that the next solution, Europa, offers a leap in performance such that data centers will more efficiently support the needs of their customers and we are prepared to integrate this new solution into our ecosystem!

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Cosimo D. Gianfreda
CEO and Co-Founder

One SDK. Every Platform.

Deploy your AI applications across both Metis and Europa with the same Voyager SDK. Develop once and scale across the entire Axelera platform, from compact edge devices to enterprise servers. The Voyager SDK uses simple YAML configuration to automatically compile, optimize, and deploy your complete application pipeline, whether you're running vision models, image processing, or language models. Build on one platform, deploy anywhere your applications need to run.

One SDK. Every Platform.

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1 Automotive use cases do not include functional safety compliance.
2 Competition source data: https://docs.nvidia.com/nim/benchmarking/llm/latest/performance.html#llama-3-1-8b-instruct-results
Data from Axelera internal testing and competitor published data