François Piednoel de Normandie
Athos Silicon CTO, ex-Performance Gurus of Intel. Ex-Mercedes Benz ADAS hardware Architect. IEEE Member
- Role
- Co-founder at Athos Silicon
- Location
- Santa Clara, CA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About François Piednoel de Normandie
Semiconductor Architect, Inventor, and FounderFrançois Piednoël is a semiconductor architect and inventor with over 25 years of experience in high-performance and safety-critical computing. He is the co-founder and CTO of Athos Silicon, founded in 2025, where he leads development of the mSoC™ platform an advanced chiplet-based system designed for autonomy, robotics, aerospace, and avionics. mSoC™ delivers ASIL-D and DO-254 compliance through deterministic scheduling, triple-redundant execution, and hardware voting.François spent 20 years at Intel, where he served as Lead Performance Architect. He was instrumental in the creation of x86 multimedia instructions and the launch of Intel’s Extreme Edition CPU line, shaping the company’s high-end desktop and enthusiast market strategy. He contributed to several generations of Intel Core processors and was trusted with many of the company’s most confidential technologies.Following Intel, François joined Mercedes-Benz, leading SoC architecture for autonomous driving systems focused on functional safety and real-time fault containment.He holds numerous granted patents and over 20 pending, spanning chiplet interconnects, fault-tolerant scheduling, and safe compute design.A passionate aviator, François owns a Bonanza F35 and a Fouga Magister jet. His flight experience shapes his engineering principle:“There is no shortcut to safety. No compromise on trust.”
Experience
Co-founder
Apr 2025 — Present · US
Skills
- Microarchitecture
- Damage Control
- Digital Signal Processors
- Processors
- Vlsi
- Linux Kernel
- Bios
- Multi-Core
- Ic
- Analog
- Perl
- Embedded Systems
- Eda
- Computer Architecture
- Semiconductor Industry
- Verilog
- Tensorflow
- C
- Gpu
- Architectures
- Algorithms
- Simulations
- Performance
- X86
- Intel
- High Performance Computing
- Soc
- Mixed Signal
- Jetson
- Firmware
- Application-Specific Integrated Circuits (Asic)
- Rtos
- Ssd
- Fpga
- Embedded Software
- X86 Assembly
- Asic
- Software Engineering
- Microprocessors
- Hardware Architecture
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