The NimbleAI Horizon Europe project leverages key principles of energy-efficient visual sensing and processing in biological eyes and brains, and harnesses the latest advances in$\mathbf{33D}$stacked silicon integration, to create an integral sensing-processing neuromorphic architecture that efficiently and accurately runs computer vision algorithms in area-constrained endpoint chips. The rationale behind the NimbleAI architecture is: sense data only with high information value and discard data as soon as they are found not to be useful for the application (in a given context). The NimbleAI sensing-processing architecture is to be specialized after-deployment by tunning system-level trade-offs for each particular computer vision algorithm and deployment environment. The objectives of NimbleAI are: (1)$\mathbf{100x}$performance per mW gains compared to state-of-the-practice solutions (i.e., CPU/GPUs processing frame-based video); (2)$\mathbf{50x}$processing latency reduction compared to CPU/GPUs; (3) energy consumption in the order of tens of mWs; and (4) silicon area of approx. 50 mm2.

SiliconBurmuin is aimed at creating a multi-disciplinary neurocomputing community in the Basque Country, bringing together technology and scientific research centres and industry companies. This community will: (1) identify key biological structures and mechanisms that play a major role in vision across species, and (2) transform this knowledge into novel mathematical formalisms, neuromorphic designs and algorithms to solve industry challenges and enable new experiments of interest in neuroscience and clinical research. To achieve the latter objective in a time-effective manner, SiliconBurmuin will draw strong connections with the ongoing Horizon Europe NimbleAI project, with which it shares coordination. This is expected to allow reinforcement of ideas, knowledge and technology via a common prototyping platform where to implement IP from both projects. In addition to describing the research objectives and direction of SiliconBurmuin, this paper posits that co-coordination and co-funding of aligned projects at EU and regional levels might well be a catalyst for raising regional self-awareness of own potential and develop it to help fulfill global challenges, such as semiconductor sovereignty.