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Greater Boston Area United States
Occupation
CEO and Founder at Adapteva Inc.
Industry
Electronics / Computer Hardware
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About
Profile:
Lapsed physicist, microprocessor architect, SOC designer, hardware hacker, entrepreneur, family man, runner.
Highlights:
• Invented the Epiphany processor architecture
• Designed the 16-core 65nm Epiphany-III microprocessor product with 3 engineers
• Designed a 64-core 28nm Epiphany-IV SOC in 12 weeks with 3 engineers
• Achieved 50 GFLOPS/W in 2011 (world first, still #1)
• Created the Parallella $99 "supercomputer" and raised $900K on Kickstarter
• First to crowd fund a semiconductor product
• Reached profitability at Adapteva with less than $2M equity investment
• Inventor of the ISATG used in mixed-signa CCD sensor interface products (>200M shipped)
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