Angers (AFP) – The Bull company, specializing in supercomputers and now split from the Atos group, inaugurated a new building on Friday on its historic site in Angers (Maine-et-Loire) and announced that it had doubled its production capacity.

Published on: 02/10/2026 - 18:16

This inauguration is part of a larger project to modernize the site, scheduled to be completed in 2028 and which the group describes as the only one in Europe capable of assembling supercomputers on a large scale, these machines designed to achieve the highest performance with the cutting-edge technologies of the moment.

In the room of more than 10,000 m2 unveiled on Friday, a hundred people in white coats assembled motherboards, processors, memory cards and graphics processors (GPUs) on large plates weighing around thirty kilos, called "computing blades".

These components are essential for running supercomputers, popular with those involved in scientific research and the booming artificial intelligence (AI) industry.

At the end of August, the company won a contract worth nearly 400 million euros for the design of a supercomputer dedicated to AI and intended for delivery to Finland.

Since April, Bull has come under the control of the French state: after being detached from the IT group Atos, it was acquired by the State Participation Agency (APE) in a bid to preserve French and European technological sovereignty.

The Minister for Industry, Sébastien Martin, then welcomed the nationalization of a company capable of “responding to rapidly growing global demand”.

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