Company expands globally as it enters high growth phase
Bristol, UK and Burlingame, Calif. (March 15, 2011) – XMOS®, developer of the industry’s first 32-bit real-time, event-driven microcontroller announces the formation of an industry advisory board. The new board will provide XMOS with valuable business and technical guidance from some of the semiconductor industry’s most experienced and successful members.
Joining the XMOS advisory board are Richard Bahr, Professor Stephen Furber, John Hodgson, Dr. Lucio Lanza, Sir Robin Saxby and Dr. Ivan Edward Sutherland.
"We couldn’t ask for a better, more experienced set of industry veterans to act as our advisors," said Terry Leeder, XMOS president and CEO. "Their interest in XMOS speaks of the potential for the products to redefine the way the next generation of embedded systems are designed."
Background Information on XMOS Advisory Board Members
Richard Bahr is the vice president of engineering for Atheros Communications. Prior to joining the highly successful wireless semiconductor company Atheros, he was the vice president of engineering for Silicon Graphics, Inc., a computing, visualization and storage company. He holds Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in electrical engineering from MIT.
Professor Stephen Furber is the ICL professor of computer engineering at the School of Computer Science at the University of Manchester. Among his notable achievements is his work at Acorn where he was one of the designers of the BBC Micro and the ARM 32-bit RISC microprocessor. He holds the Queen's honour of CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire), and is a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) and of the Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng). In September 2007 he was awarded the prestigious IET Faraday Medal. In 2010, Furber was elected as one of the three laureates of the Millennium Technology Prize, awarded by the Technology Academy of Finland, for development of the ARM processor.
John Hodgson was the CEO of Cambridge Silicon Radio from 2000 to 2006 and took the company public on the LSE in 2004. Prior to CSR, Mr. Hodgson was the Vice President of World Wide Sales and an Officer at AT&T Microelectronics (later became Lucent Microelectronics). He also served as the Vice President of World Wide Sales for VLSI technology from 1997 to 2000. Since 2006 he has held the position of non-executive director for Corsair Components.
Dr. Lucio Lanza is the managing director at Lanza techVentures, a venture capital firm that he founded in January 2001. He has held a number of senior industry marketing, engineering and general management positions including many years at Olivetti S.p.A. Dr. Lanza has served as senior vice president and chief strategist for Cadence Design Systems, as well as chairman of Intel’s Microprocessor Business Segment. Dr. Lanza has been the chairman of the board of directors of Artisan Components Inc. until their acquisition by ARM in 2004. He has been a director of PDF Solutions Inc. since 1996 and chairman since 2000. He is also a former non-executive board member of ARM Holdings, PLC. He sits on the board of several private high tech companies.
Sir Robin Saxby is the former CEO and chairman of ARM Holdings, PLC. Mr. Saxby is also a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng). In 1991 he joined Cambridge-based ARM as the first CEO. He has also worked at Rank Bush Murphy, Pye, Motorola and Henderson Security. Immediately prior to his appointment at ARM, he worked at European Silicon Structures. Mr. Saxby has an honorary doctorate from the University of Liverpool (where he is a visiting professor), Loughborough University and the University of Essex. He received the Faraday Medal of the IEE (now the IET). He was knighted in the 2002 New Year's Honors List.
Dr. Ivan Sutherland is an American computer scientist and computing pioneer. Considered by many to be the creator of computer graphics, he received the Turing Award from the Association for Computing Machinery in 1988 for the invention of Sketchpad, an early predecessor to the graphical user interface that has become ubiquitous in personal computers. Dr. Sutherland was a co-founder of the pioneering computer graphics company, Evans and Sutherland. He served for many years as a Fellow at Sun Microsystems (now Oracle). With the title "Visiting Scientist" Ivan continues to work on advanced computing systems in the newly formed Asynchronous Research Center at Portland State University. Dr. Sutherland is a member of the United States National Academy of Engineering and of the National Academy of Sciences.
Headquartered in Bristol, UK, XMOS has recently opened new offices around the globe. An office in Burlingame, California will serve as the North American commercial headquarters. A sales and business development office has been opened in Austin, Texas. XMOS is also establishing a new software product support and development center in Chennai, India.
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About XMOS Ltd.
Headquartered in Bristol, UK, XMOS has developed the next generation of 32-bit, multi-core, multi-threaded, embedded microcontrollers that significantly lower development time and system bill of materials cost. The company’s event-driven microcontrollers combine the code efficiency of a RISC processor, the computational performance of a DSP and the unique flexibility of implementing all peripherals through user-defined “C” software, not in silicon. The XMOS multi-core architecture supports high levels of real-time performance with operating system functionality built directly into the hardware architecture. The company was founded in 2005 and has additional offices in Burlingame, CA, Austin, TX, and Chennai, India. For more information about XMOS and its solutions, please visit www.xmos.com or the open community site at www.xcore.com.
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