(CTO & Co-Founder) Before founding XMOS, David was Head of Computer Science at University of Bristol, previous to that he spent 16 years in the semiconductor industry at Inmos and then STMicroelectronics. David was the architect of the Transputer and the author of the OCCAM language. David created XMOS core technologies and has 33 granted patents with many pending patents centered around microprocessor technology. David was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1990 for his contributions to computer architecture and parallel computing, and a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2010. He is on the technical advisory boards of several semiconductor companies.
