Louis Tannyeres EVP of Engineering, Kalray
Former senior fellow of Texas Instruments
This is a Press Release edited by StorageNewsletter.com on May 14, 2020 at 2:35 pmKalray SA announces that Louis Tannyeres has been appointed EVP of engineering.
With over 35 years of experience in designing advanced semiconductor solutions in various executive positions in large semiconductor companies, he will bring experience in executing product roadmaps, industrializing high volume products and delivering optimized solutions to customers.
He started his career with Texas Instruments (TI) in 1980. He was instrumental in the success of its wireless business unit, which generated several billions of dollar of revenue. In particular, he architected and designed the world’s first digital baseband SoC integrating a DSP core, a microcontroller and an ASIC on a single die, which became the architecture of choice for the mobile phone and has been shipped in tens of billions of devices.
He was one of the inventors of the OMAP application processor for Smartphones, a processor architecture, adopted by large mobile phone companies. Due to his technical contributions to TI, he was elected senior fellow, one of six in the company. Following his TI career, he was principal fellow, chief chip architect and head of system silicon development at ST-Ericsson.
“Louis is a great addition to the executive team of Kalray. He brings tremendous expertise in leading design teams to develop and industrialize advanced processor solutions for large semiconductor companies,” said Eric Baissus, CEO. “In addition, he is a unique leader and role model to his teams. I am sure Louis will be instrumental in bringing Kalray R&D to the next level.“
“I have been following Kalray’s evolution for quite some time and have been impressed by the innovative architecture and unique capabilities of Coolidge to power new intelligent systems,” said Tannyeres. “I am excited to join Kalray and eager to contribute to the company’s growth and success.”
In his role, he will manage hardware design and test, board design, engineering and industrialization teams, reporting to the CEO. He will focus on the design of Coolidge and its evolutions as the platform to support the company’s ambitions on data center and automotive markets.
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