Axelera AI co-founds European association for fabless chipmakers. 9 November 2026 Editor at Bits&Chips Reading time: 2 minutes Eindhoven-based Axelera AI is one of five founding members of the European Fabless Semiconductor Association, launched in Brussels on 4 November. The group will represent companies that design chips and outsource manufacturing to EU institutions, connect them with investors and customers and negotiate shared services. Axelera co-founded the association with Quside, Semidynamics, Sipearl and VSORA, with plans to bring together more than fifty fabless companies within three years. Paul de Bot, who previously led TSMC's European business, will serve as its first president. "Europe now has the fabless startups to compete in this space, but they need scale-up capital and access to customers. The European Union can support this, and the Association gives them the voice to get heard in Brussels," comments De Bot. "Europe has fabless companies shipping silicon that competes with the best in the world, and public programs deserve part of the credit for getting us here. But sovereignty isn't a business model. What turns a design company into an industry is customers, and America built its chip industry by being the first buyer of technology that wasn't yet proven," says Fabrizio Del Maffeo, co-founder and CEO of Axelera. "Europe is building AI factories, sovereign cloud and public data centers at record speed, and most of the chips inside them are still designed somewhere else," Del Maffeo continues. "Make European silicon the first purchase order instead of the last, and we won't be the companies asking for support; we'll be the companies giving employment and paying taxes here. Fabless Europe gives us one voice to make that case." Support its independent tech journalism. With your contribution, Bits & Chips can continue to provide you with independent news and backgrounders. Take out your membership now (from € 20 per year) to get access to its exclusive content. Bits & Chips also offer business memberships for all accounts on a company email domain. Here you can read why Bits & Chips is looking for your support.

From detection to decision: Axelera AI analytics inside Milestone XProtect. At the Global Security Exchange conference (GSX), BCD, a video infrastructure company delivering high-performance, reliable, and scalable storage solutions for physical security environments worldwide and Axelera partner, shared something security teams have wanted for a long time: AI analytics running locally, on the same box as the video. Engineered by BCD and powered by Axelera AI's Metis AIPU, the all-in-one appliance combines video recording, storage, PoE connectivity, and AI analytics in a single edge solution. The demo ran on three camera streams, flagging people carrying backpacks for operators to keep an eye on. A crowd is full of backpacks, so the point wasn't to alarm on everyone. It was to give operators a headstart on the people worth watching. Behind the demo is the integration that carries those detections into Milestone XProtect(R). Axelera AI video analytics for XProtect is a verified Milestone integration, and Axelera AI is now a Verified partner in the Milestone Technology Partner Program. Alarms in the list your operators already work from When the analytics see something that matters, the integration opens a standard alarm in XProtect. Operators handle it in Smart Client exactly as they handle any other alarm. Each alarm carries what an operator needs to act: * The camera - The operator steps straight from the alarm to that camera's recorded video. * The person's position - The bounding box is given as a fraction of the frame, so it locates the person in the recording at any recording resolution. * Confidence score - The model's own score for the detection. * Tracking identity - It stays the same on every alarm raised for that person while they remain in view. Each alarm opens the moment its trigger happens, not after the person has left. It closes on its own when they walk out of view. Two kinds of alarms: one the model decides, one the operator decides An alarm for every backpack is an alarm nobody reviews. So an alarm opens only when a rule the site has set fires, or when an operator marks a person. The two most used are below. * Threat alarms: These fire automatically when a tracked person is carrying an object of a class the site has ranked as a threat. Which classes count as threats is a site policy decision, not something hard-coded. * Person-of-interest alarms: These start with a human judgment. An operator watching the video wall marks a person, such as one of those backpack carriers, and an alarm opens in XProtect at once. That decision becomes a record in the VMS that anyone on the team can investigate. The two read differently in the alarm list, so operators can tell them apart without opening them. A clean picture, and a better one as the person moves Each alarm includes a picture of the person, cropped from the camera's full-resolution stream. It is clean, with no overlay drawn on it, and is flagged that way, so it is the one to use as evidence. The picture keeps improving while the person is in view. The system scores face angle, size in frame, sharpness and lighting, and adds a visibly better shot to the open alarm, up to three times. Detect at full resolution, record at whatever your storage allows Cameras have moved to 4K and beyond, but recording budgets haven't kept pace. Many sites record high-resolution images and videos at a fraction of what the camera produces. With this integration, detection runs on the camera's native stream, while XProtect records at whatever resolution the site chooses. The evidence picture comes from the native stream, not the recording. A site can record at 1080p and still have a full-resolution picture of every person who triggered an alarm. Nothing to rip out Cameras stream to the Axelera analytics and to XProtect in parallel, so the recording server takes on no extra load. Your cameras, recordings and views stay exactly as they are. The integration talks to XProtect over a single outbound HTTPS connection to the API Gateway. It signs in with a dedicated account that holds only the four permissions it needs, never an administrator role. The analytics can run on a dedicated host or, as BCD showed at GSX, on the same appliance as the video. Axelera AI is working with BCD on what comes next. See more about the Milestone and Axelera solution here.

OpenNebula Systems and Axelera AI collaborate to advance European sovereign AI infrastructure. OpenNebula Systems and Axelera AI combine open cloud and edge orchestration with European AI inference hardware through the Europa Early Access Program. By bringing together OpenNebula's cloud and edge orchestration capabilities with Axelera AI's inference hardware and software stack, we're expanding options for building sovereign AI infrastructures" - Alberto P. Martí, Director of Strategic Alliances at OpenNebula Systems MADRID, SPAIN, October 28, 2026 / EINPresswire.com / - OpenNebula Systems, the developer of OpenNebula, an open source, vendor-neutral enterprise cloud and virtualization platform designed for sovereign clouds and AI Factories, and Axelera AI, a provider of high-performance AI acceleration technology, today announced a collaboration to advance end-to-end infrastructure solutions for European sovereign AI. The initiative brings together OpenNebula's cloud and edge orchestration capabilities with Axelera AI's inference hardware and software stack for AI Factories, AI Gigafactories, enterprise AI environments, Neoclouds, and telecommunications infrastructure. As part of the agreement, OpenNebula Systems will participate in Axelera AI's Europa (R) Early Access Program (EAP). The work builds on technical activities already underway between the two companies. OpenNebula Systems has integrated Axelera AI's Metis (R) AIPU into its orchestration platform using virtualization and PCI passthrough, enabling AI inference workloads to run on Axelera accelerators within virtualized, multi-tenant infrastructure. The integration demonstrates how Axelera accelerators can be provisioned as on-demand infrastructure resources through OpenNebula. The companies will extend this work through further technical validation of Axelera AI's hardware and software within the OpenNebula environment. This includes certification of Metis accelerators with PCI passthrough and KVM, evaluation of Axelera AI's new Europa products for generative AI and large language model workloads, and exploration of integration with vLLM and enterprise LLM serving frameworks. "European organizations are looking for ways to build AI infrastructure that gives them greater control over the technologies and platforms they rely on. By bringing together OpenNebula's cloud and edge orchestration capabilities with Axelera AI's inference hardware and software stack, we're working to expand the range of options available for building sovereign AI infrastructures, from enterprise environments to large-scale AI Factories," said Alberto P. Martí, Director of Strategic Alliances at OpenNebula Systems. "Sovereign AI starts with choice. Organizations should be able to decide where their AI runs, how it is orchestrated, and who controls their data, without being locked into a single vendor's stack. Pairing OpenNebula's open, vendor-neutral platform with Axelera AI's high-performance, energy-efficient AI accelerators gives customers that control, with a practical way to scale inference while keeping power consumption and costs in check," said Val Cassidy, Director of Partnerships at Axelera AI. The companies will also explore joint reference architectures combining open source infrastructure orchestration with European AI acceleration technologies, with a particular focus on new AI Factory and AI Gigafactory deployments. Through this work, OpenNebula Systems and Axelera AI will continue to explore new approaches to sovereign AI infrastructure, helping European organizations build AI environments with greater flexibility and choice. About OpenNebula Systems OpenNebula Systems is the developer of OpenNebula, an open, vendor-neutral enterprise cloud and virtualization platform designed for sovereign clouds and AI factories. The company provides SLA-based support and professional services to enterprises, service providers, and public-sector organizations worldwide. OpenNebula is increasingly adopted as a VMware replacement platform, enabling organizations to modernize and consolidate their infrastructure while preserving existing hardware investments and operational practices. At the same time, the platform has evolved to support AI Factories and AI Gigafactories, acting as a unified control plane for GPU-accelerated infrastructure, Kubernetes platforms, and large-scale AI workloads. With a global presence and offices in Europe and the United States, OpenNebula Systems is a trusted partner for large-scale, mission-critical deployments, supporting more than 5,000 cloud deployments worldwide and infrastructures that scale to thousands of hosts and tens of thousands of GPUs. About Axelera AI Axelera AI is a hardware and software company purpose-built for AI inference acceleration. The company's products are built on Digital In-Memory Computing (D-IMC), delivering high performance and energy efficiency across every segment of compute, at a fraction of the cost of competing solutions. Through a technology platform that scales across use cases, Axelera AI supports multiple industries, from healthcare to industrial automation, from retail to security, from robotics to enterprise AI. Axelera hardware is built on an AI processor roadmap that spans single-digit watt options optimized for embedded and edge, up to rack-level deployment for servers. The Voyager toolkit is a single software stack spanning the entirety of Axelera's hardware to simplify adoption and maximize end-to-end performance. Axelera's team spans more than 20 countries across Europe, North America and Asia and the company has raised over $450 million in financing. Working with more than 500 customers, Axelera AI is solving real-world problems and unlocking future possibilities. 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