EDA industry veteran Wally Rhines has joined many-core accelerator chip company Cornami as CEO.
Rhines, who retains his position as CEO Emeritus at Mentor Graphics following almost 25 years as CEO, is a high-profile hire for Cornami. The Campbell, CA, company is currently a roughly 60-person startup seeking additional funding to finance production of an accelerator chip expected to tape out in 3-4 months’ time.
Cornami started out developing software that helped applications take full advantage of multi-core processors by using them in the most efficient way. This concept was developed into a hardware design for a reconfigurable computing fabric which can scale from multi- to many-core designs — thousands on a chip or millions in a system — plus a proprietary high-speed network-on-chip for communication.
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