VSORA Names David Dorval Vice President of Operations and Test
07 Mayo 2024 - 10:00AM
VSORA, an innovative startup offering high-performance AI chips for
Generative AI (GenAI) and autonomous driving, today appointed David
Dorval to the newly created Vice President of Operations and Test
role reporting to Khaled Maalej, VSORA’s founder and CEO.
“David is a seasoned operations executive, and we are delighted
he accepted our offer to be a part of the VSORA journey,” remarks
Maalej in announcing the appointment. “VSORA will benefit
significantly from his expertise as we continue developing and
rolling out our single-chip architecture that’s trouncing the
memory wall and accelerating GenAI implementations and Levels 3-5
autonomous driving applications.”
In 2023, VSORA unveiled Jotunn™, a chiplet-based scalable
solution to provide a performance jump for GenAI inference by
accelerating the broad variety of advanced AI and compute-intensive
algorithms. The Jotunn8 chip provides up to 6.4 PetaFLOPS with
reduced power consumption compared to existing solutions. It
includes a compute efficiency of more than 50% for large language
models (LLMs) with massive amounts of parameters like GPT-3.5 (175
billion) or GPT-4 (1.8 trillion) compared to a typical efficiency
range of about 2-4% of the current industry solutions.
VSORA also developed the Tyr™ family of PetaFLOPS computational
companion chips to accelerate Levels 3 through 5 autonomous driving
and advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS) platforms as well as
low-cost Generative AI applications. It is delivering between
800-trillion and 3,200-trillion operations per second with a power
consumption of as little as 10 watts.
“VSORA’s innovative architecture and IP and silicon solutions
are destined to create a new hardware processing paradigm, sorely
needed in the semiconductor industry,” says Dorval. “I look forward
to helping VSORA deliver on our goals.”
Dorval was most recently founder and CEO of Stimio, now part of
CBM Group. Previous, he was technical director of Visian, ASIC
operations director at Parrot and vice president of DIBCOM. He
started his career as a test and product engineer at Texas
Instruments, moving to Philips Semiconductors and NXP as a design
for test engineer. He was awarded a Ph.D. in Microelectronics from
the Université de Rennes in France.
About VSORAVSORA provides high-performance
silicon solutions for autonomous driving (AD) and advanced
driver-assistance systems (ADAS) as well as Generative AI. Its
powerful multicore architecture eliminates the need for digital
signal processing (DSP) and/or AI co-processors and hardware
accelerators to provide a level of flexibility achievable only with
software programming. Founded in 2015 by a team of DSP and AI
scientists and engineers with a long history of successes, VSORA
has offices in France and Taiwan.
Connect with VSORA:Website: www.vsora.com
Email: info@vsora.com Linkedin:
https://www.linkedin.com/company/vsora/
A photo accompanying this announcement is available at
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For more information, contact:
Nanette Collins
Public Relations for VSORA
(617) 437-1822
nanette@nvc.com