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Kalray Unveils Coolidge™ at CES 2020

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Kalray (Paris:ALKAL), a pioneer in processors for new intelligent
systems, today announced the company will showcase its MPPA-3 aka
Coolidge™, its third generation of unique and patented MPPA® (Massively
Parallel Processor Array) processor family at CES 2020 in Las Vegas,
from January 7 to 10, 2020.

COOLIDGE™ DEMONSTRATED AT CES

Just a few weeks after having received the first samples of Coolidge
from manufacturing, Kalray will showcase a complete Artificial
Intelligence use case running on Coolidge at CES, including a common
demo with NXP, one of the leading semiconductor companies.

Coolidge samples general availability is planned for April.

COOLIDGE UNIQUELY POSITIONED FOR THE BOOMING MARKET OF INTELLIGENT
SYSTEMS

Coolidge represents a 25X performance improvement(1)
over second generation MPPA, with improvement of artificial intelligence
capacities, increased ease of programming and higher-performance
interfaces in particular for next generation of data centers.

Coolidge is targeting the booming market of intelligent systems, from
next generation of data center infrastructure, 5G to next generation of
cars. Coolidge is a compelling choice versus FPGA, which are expensive
and difficult to program; GPU, which are tailored for mathematical
algorithms; and AI processors, designed for AI only. Coolidge-based
cards can be configured to deliver specialized acceleration performance
in a wide set of demanding functions such as vision, signal processing,
encryption, software stacks, real-time protocols, etc.

Eric Baissus, CEO of Kalray comments: “Yet another important
phase for the company. Coolidge is the platform to support company’s
ambitions on data center markets, answering needs of growing diversity
of Data Center workload acceleration and on automotive, enabling
integration of multiple critical functions on the same chip while
providing huge computing performance.”

DATA CENTER’S GROWING NEED FOR ACCELERATIONS AT COMPUTE, STORAGE AND
NETWORKING

“2CRSi is eager to evaluate the new Coolidge processor from Kalray
and excited to explore solutions leveraging Kalray’s configurable cards.
The performance of this third-generation processor will enable an
expansion of our offer in high-growth areas such as Artificial
Intelligence or compute acceleration, while enabling more and more
distributed and disaggregated data center implementations”, said Alain
Wilmouth, CEO of 2CRSi.

AUTOMOTIVE AND EMBEDDED MARKETS NEED FOR INTEGRATION OF MULTIPLE
CRITICAL FUNCTIONS AND HIGH COMPUTE PERFORMANCE

“We are very happy to see the strategic partnership with Kalray reach
a new milestone and have Coolidge integrated into the NXP BlueBox, our
development platform for automated driving, showcased at CES. We are
convinced NXP and Kalray will bring multiple benefits to the development
and industrialization of ADAS and AD vehicles with safe and secure
solutions integrating multiple critical functions and providing very
high computing performance” said Kamal Khouri, Vice
President & General Manager, Advanced Driver Assistance, NXP.

Coolidge has been designed to address the challenges and constraints of
the new generation of intelligent systems:

  • High computing power with low energy consumption
  • Open and easily programmable system
  • Real-Time data processing and deterministic behavior
  • Concurrent execution of many heterogeneous critical tasks in parallel
    on a single chip
  • Advanced security and safety mechanisms suitable for the most
    demanding systems, defined in collaboration with Kalray’s partners in
    the aerospace, defense and automotive fields

For more information and to view the demonstrations, come and
visit us at CES from January 7 to 10 at Las Vegas, USA: NXP’s booth
#CP18, Central Plaza.

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ABOUT KALRAY

Kalray (Euronext Growth Paris – FR0010722819 – ALKAL) is the pioneer in
processors for new intelligent systems. A genuine technological
breakthrough, “intelligent” processors are able to intelligently analyze
a vast quantity of data on the fly and to make decisions and interact in
real time with the outside world. These intelligent processors will be
largely deployed in fast-growing sectors such as new-generation networks
(intelligent data centers) and autonomous vehicles, as well as in
healthcare equipment, drones and robots. Kalray’s offering spans both
processors and global solutions (electronic boards and software).
Created in 2008 as a spin-off of CEA (“Commissariat à l’Énergie
Atomique”, the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy
Commission), Kalray addresses a broad spectrum of customers including
server manufacturers, intelligent system integrators and consumer
product manufacturers such as car makers. Read more at: www.kalrayinc.com

1 25 TOPS (Tera Operations Per Second) performance for
Coolidge versus 1 TOPS for previous generation Bostan