Philippe Notton

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ABOUT PHILIPPE NOTTON

Philippe Notton is the CEO and founder of SiPearl, the French, Spanish and Italian company that is designing the high-performance, low-power microprocessor for the European exascale supercomputer.His original vision of SiPearl came in 2015 while he was leading a division of 2400 engineers at STMicroelectronics. In 2017, he joined Atos to set up the European Processor Initiative (EPI) consortium, which aimed to foster the return of high-performance microprocessor design to Europe. In June 2019, he launched SiPearl as a spin-off of the EPI with the support of the European Union. He assembled a team of experts and managers from Atos, STMicroelectronics, Marvell, Intel, Nokia and MediaTek and now employs 100 engineers in Maisons-Laffitte (France), Duisburg (Germany) and Barcelona. SiPearl’s first generation microprocessor, named Rhea, will be launched in 2025.As a senior executive, Philippe Notton has built an outstanding track-record in the multimedia, semiconductor and security fields. Passionate about high technology and fast-moving environments, he has worked in France, the UK and the US for market-leading groups (Thomson, Canal+, LSI Logic, STMicroelectronics, Atos), as well as a successful startup (MStar Semiconductor, sold to MediaTek in 2012 for US$4B).Philippe Notton is a Supélec engineer (1993) and has an Executive MBA from ESSEC & Mannheim (2008).