Peter Clarke, EETimes
1/24/2012 7:38 AM EST
LONDON – Joel Monnier is a former vice president of central R&D at Europe's largest chip company STMicroelectronics. The company he now leads is Kalray SA, headquartered in Orsay near Paris, and with an engineering base in Grenoble, France. The company is on a mission to launch a relatively general-purpose many-core processor. Kalray is claiming it can combine the hardware with necessary software to break through the many-core barrier with a 256 processor array integrated on a 28-nm CMOS chip.