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Home / Digital Europe Programme / DIGITAL-JU-CHIPS-2026-AI1-SG

AI chip demonstrators for EU compute infrastructure

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Next cut-off
27 Oct '26
in 51 days
Per grant
€1.0M
the call's own average
Grants expected
10
projects that will be funded
Funding rate
,
not published, read the conditions

In context of Digital Europe Programme

This grant€1.0M
The track runs to the largest grant in Digital Europe Programme (€70M). The median across the 23 calls we publish is €4.0M, this one is below it.

What this call funds

Expected Outcome:

The expected outcomes of this topic are :

  • Functional demonstrators of working AI chip prototypes (PCB-level) designed by EU fabless companies and physically integrated with their system partners.
  • Validation of AI chip solutions on a common EU evaluation platform (provided by the Topic X.B consortium), delivering comparative evidence on key performance indicators.
  • A shortlist of European AI chip solutions awarded the AI Compute Excellence label and qualified to proceed to full rack development under Topic X.A2.

What applying costs you

ItemEstimateNote
Drafting effort3–4 weekssingle submission
Time to first payment6–9 monthscut-off → evaluation → grant agreement

These are Bemzu's estimates from the call's structure (the number of stages and whether a consortium is required) not figures published by the Commission. Only the co-financing share is read from the call itself.

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