Works for Mercedes. I wonder who he is referring to?! If it was Brainchip you would imagine that they’ve “reviewed” the IP a while ago, unless they have the new and improved akida containing LSTM??
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2017:
"FRANCOIS PIEDNOËL:
Principal Engineer leaves Intel
After almost 20 years, Francois Piednoël is leaving Intel . As a principal engineer, the Frenchman was jointly responsible for CPUs for the Pentium III up to the Core X. Piednoël was strictly against overclocking, in the future he will probably work in the AI area.
Francois Piednoël has announced via Twitter that he is leaving Intel of his own volition. With him, the manufacturer loses its previous principal engineer and senior performance analyst, who was significantly involved in the hardware and software optimization of Intel's CPU architectures.
One of Piednoël's most important measures was the replacement of the Pentium 4's Netburst technology with the core microarchitecture, which drastically accelerated Intel's current dominance in the x86 sector. He also advocated that CPUs should not be overclocked and banned the sale of engineering samples, even though these were part of Intel's marketing.
Almost 20 years at Intel
Piednoël has been working for Intel since 1997, starting with the Katmai, the first Pentium III. In the following years he dealt with Conroe (Core 2 with 65 nm) and Penryn (Core 2 with 45 nm). With the latter, the SSE 4.1 instruction set extension found its way into Intel's processors - Piednoël took care of SIMDs until the end. He optimized code from 64-bit wide in the 2000s to 512-bit wide with the current AVX-512 instructions in Skylake-SP (Xeon Scalable Processors) and Skylake-X (Core X). In between, Nehalem with an integrated memory controller and all subsequent generations - from Sandy Bridge to Kaby Lake - also belonged to his tasks.
Piednoël was also heavily involved in Android optimizations at Intel, working closely with Franck Delattre, the French developer of CPU-Z. According to his hints on Twitter,
Piednoël will deal more with artificial intelligence in the future, but he cannot switch to direct competition anyway because of his knowledge. He is leaving Intel at a time when AMD again has a strong portfolio to offer in the processor market with Epyc and Ryzen."
https://www.golem.de/news/francois-piednoel-principal-engineer-verlaesst-intel-1707-129086.html
https://www.linkedin.com/in/francoispiednoel