French government acquires Bull from Atos for €404 million
Key summary
The French government completed the acquisition of Bull from Atos for €404 million.
The acquired unit is Bull (formerly Eviden), which comprises High-Performance Computing, Quantum, and AI divisions.
The government becomes the sole shareholder; the share purchase agreement was signed in July 2025.
The deal excludes zData and the Vision AI division.
Bull had estimated FY2025 revenues of €700 million, operates Europe’s only supercomputer factory in Angers, built the Jupiter exascale supercomputer, plans to install a second exascale machine named Alice Recoque at TGCC, was previously bought by Atos in 2014 for €620 million, and describes itself as the only European player that designs, builds, and deploys HPC hardware and software entirely in-house.
