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2mo ago

Brazil Will Install R$1.06 Billion Supercomputer in Rio Grande do Norte

The federal plan aims to cut Brazil's reliance on foreign AI processing by building domestic computing, cloud and chip capacity by 2027.

Plano do governo prevê parceria com as chinesas Huawei e iFlytek, contratação de supercomputador e investimentos em chips.
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Overview

  • President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva announced the project on Thursday at PAX in Macaíba and the government earmarked R$1.06 billion from CT‑Infra to buy, prepare and operate the machine.
  • The announced system is specified at 7,200 petaflops (FP16), more than 50,000 processing cores and roughly 4 megawatts of power, and will be hosted at UFRN’s PAX as part of a new national high‑performance computing center.
  • Officials presented the supercomputer as one of three PBIA technology routes, alongside a China‑linked processing node planned for Rio de Janeiro and a RISC‑V open‑architecture chip effort centered in Campinas.
  • The broader package reported by Valor totals about R$2.3 billion and adds a national cloud effort, a National Center for Algorithmic Transparency at UFMG, and training for 3,000 professionals, but procurement rules, governance and vendor contracts remain to be defined.
  • If completed on the government’s provisional timetable, the cloud and related infrastructure could be online around mid‑2027 and the supercomputer operating by the end of 2027, a shift that would let more universities, firms and public agencies train AI models inside Brazil rather than abroad.