Building the European Edge AI continuum
Artificial intelligence is now emerging as a major driver of transformation across many sectors, including mobility, industry, healthcare, security and energy.
To meet the demands of these domains, AI must be fast, reliable, energy‑efficient and secure. It can no longer rely solely on centralized cloud architectures: it must operate closer to data, directly within systems and devices.
This evolution toward Edge AI is the common thread linking the European projects StorAIge and NeAIxt, both part of the same technological and strategic trajectory.
StorAIge: strengthening the foundations of Edge AI
The European project StorAIge (2021–2024) was launched at a pivotal moment in the development of Edge AI in Europe.
While AI had already demonstrated strong application potential, the hardware technologies required for large‑scale deployment at the edge were still limited in terms of maturity, energy efficiency, security and robustness.
StorAIge aimed to advance the core technological building blocks of Edge AI, building on Europe’s strengths in electronic components and systems. The project addressed the entire value chain, from materials and silicon technologies to application demonstrators, following a structuring approach: application needs guided technological developments.
The work carried out within StorAIge made it possible to:
Further develop low‑power semiconductor technologies
Advance embedded non‑volatile memories suitable for local data processing
Design microcontroller and system‑on‑chip architectures combining performance, security and energy efficiency
By bringing AI closer to the level of electronic components themselves, StorAIge prepared solutions aligned with the real requirements of key sectors such as automotive, industry, security and consumer applications.
StorAIge thus established solid technological foundations, enabling Europe to address the next phase of Edge AI development with a reinforced industrial and scientific base.
Moving from foundations to a new scale
At the conclusion of StorAIge, a crucial milestone had been reached: the key technologies of Edge AI had matured and gained credibility for concrete use cases. However, a new challenge naturally emerged:
How to combine, integrate and deploy these technologies at large scale, across diverse sectors, each with its own constraints and requirements?
The challenges now extended beyond technological performance alone. They included:
NeAIxt: structuring Edge AI through ecosystems
Launched in 2025, NeAIxt builds directly on the achievements of StorAIge, while significantly expanding both scale and ambition.
NeAIxt aims to open the next generation of Edge AI, combining technological advances with a new model for organizing innovation: Ecosystems.
Each ecosystem brings together complementary stakeholders and covers the entire innovation pathway, from identifying application needs to developing advanced hardware and software technologies and validating them through real‑world demonstrators.
Structured around key sectors:
NeAIxt ecosystems enable Edge AI technologies to be transformed into integrated, reliable and use‑case‑driven solutions.
By extending the foundations laid by StorAIge, NeAIxt integrates new architectures, advanced memories and distributed computing approaches required to address today’s challenges in performance, energy efficiency, security and European technological sovereignty.
A coherent European trajectory
StorAIge and NeAIxt represent 2 complementary stages of a single European trajectory.
StorAIge strengthened the maturity of Edge AI technologies at component and electronic system level.
NeAIxt builds on these achievements to structure, integrate and deploy these technologies at large scale, within collaborative ecosystems oriented toward concrete applications.
Together, they illustrate a clear strategy: building a strong European Edge AI capability, from technological foundations to real‑world applications, while placing trust, energy efficiency and sovereignty at the core of development efforts.
This continuity, from technological building blocks to application‑driven ecosystems, now guides NeAIxt’s ambition and is shaping the future of Edge AI in Europe.