Kalray

Kalray was founded in 2008 as a spin-off of CEA French lab, with investors such as Renault–Nissan–Mitsubishi Alliance, Safran, NXP Semiconductors, CEA and Bpifrance.{{Cite web |last=Pelé |first=Anne-Françoise |date=2020-12-11 |title=Kalray Completes Capital Increase to Fund Next Processor |url=https://www.eetimes.eu/kalray-completes-capital-increase-to-fund-next-processor/ |access-date=2023-10-04 |website=EE Times Europe |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |title=Kalray Announces Availability of Its New DPU Processor: 'Coolidge2' |url=https://www.hpcwire.com/off-the-wire/kalray-announces-availability-of-its-new-dpu-processor-coolidge2/ |access-date=2023-10-04 |website=HPCwire |language=en-US}}

In April 2020, Kalray announced an $8 million investment from NXP which allows them to be able to develop various solutions for autonomous driving together.{{Cite web |date=2020-04-02 |title=Strategic Investment of NXP in Kalray |url=https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200402005852/en/Strategic-Investment-of-NXP-in-Kalray |access-date=2023-10-04 |website=www.businesswire.com |language=en}}{{Cite web |date=2020-07-04 |title=NXP makes strategic investment in Kalray |url=https://www.newelectronics.co.uk/content/news/nxp-makes-strategic-investment-in-kalray/ |access-date=2023-10-04 |website=New Electronics |language=en}}

In January 2022, Kalray negotiated with arcapix Holdings Ltd. for their acquisition. Arcapix is the parent company of pixitmedia and arcastream.{{Cite web |last=Creamer |first=Jon |last2= |first2= |date=2022-01-24 |title=pixitmedia in talks to be bought by Kalray |url=https://www.televisual.com/news/pixitmedia-in-talks-to-be-bought-by-kalray/ |access-date=2023-10-05 |website=Televisual}}{{Cite web |last=Kalray |title=KALRAY ENTERS INTO EXCLUSIVE NEGOTIATIONS FOR THE ACQUISITION OF ARCAPIX HOLDINGS LTD, A LEADING PROVIDER OF SOFTWARE-DEFINED STORAGE SOLUTIONS FOR DATA-INTENSIVE APPLICATIONS |url=https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/kalray-enters-into-exclusive-negotiations-for-the-acquisition-of-arcapix-holdings-ltd-a-leading-provider-of-software-defined-storage-solutions-for-data-intensive-applications-301465217.html |access-date=2023-10-05 |website=www.prnewswire.com |language=en}} At the Flash Memory Summit Awards (FMS) in August 2022, Kalray was awarded the Most Innovative Technology award for their Flashbox.{{Cite web |date=2022-08-04 |title=Kalray’s Flashbox™ Wins Coveted Flash Memory Summit Award for Most Innovative Technology |url=https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220803005573/en/Kalray%E2%80%99s-Flashbox%E2%84%A2-Wins-Coveted-Flash-Memory-Summit-Award-for-Most-Innovative-Technology |access-date=2023-10-05 |website=www.businesswire.com |language=en}}{{Cite news |date=2022-08-04 |title=Kalray’s Flashbox™ Wins Coveted Flash Memory Summit Award for Most Innovative Technology |language=en |work=Bloomberg.com |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/press-releases/2022-08-04/kalray-s-flashbox-wins-coveted-flash-memory-summit-award-for-most-innovative-technology |access-date=2023-10-05}} In May 2023, the IP-CUBE project that is led by Kalray won the "Technological Maturation and Demonstration of Embedded Artificial Intelligence Solutions" label under the "France Relance 2030 – Future Investments" plan.{{Cite web |date=2023-05-11 |title=Kalray, Arteris, Secure-IC, and Thales, Win the Call for Projects Related to the AI Acceleration Strategy of the "France Relance 2030 - Future Investments" Plan |url=https://www.design-reuse.com/news/54018/kalray-arteris-secure-ic-thales-france-relance-2030-future-investments-plan.html |access-date=2024-01-18 |website=Design And Reuse |language=en}}{{Cite web |last=Ahmad |first=Majeed |date=2023-05-15 |title=Aspired European Nvidia aims DPUs at embedded AI |url=https://www.edn.com/aspired-european-nvidia-aims-dpus-at-embedded-ai/ |access-date=2024-01-18 |website=EDN |language=en-US}}

The first Kalray patent was filed in 2010. Today the company holds more than 30 patent families,{{cite web|access-date=2024-01-05 |date=2022-12-15 |title=Kalray: Hardware and software solutions for high-performance data-centric computing, from Cloud to Edge |publisher=cea.fr |url=https://www.cea.fr/english/Pages/innovation/start-ups/kalray.aspx}} including 2 families with an exclusive CEA license.

On 22 June 2015, Kalray began the distribution of data center acceleration board families: TurboCard and KONIC,{{Cite news|url=http://www.kalrayinc.com/portfolio/boards/|title=Boards - Kalray|work=Kalray|access-date=2018-06-28|language=en-US}} for networking and storage applications, both of which can be programmed with either standard C or C++.{{Cite web|url=http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/kalray-to-demonstrate-3-million-iops-with-an-nvme-of-jbof-system-300420126.html|title=Kalray to Demonstrate 3+ Million IOPS with an NVMe-oF JBOF System|last=Kalray|website=www.prnewswire.com|language=en|access-date=2017-05-04}} TurboCard and KONIC both utilize the MPPA2-256 Bostan second generation processor.

In January 2019, Kalray and NXP began a partnership for new platforms for automated driving. The Massively Parallel Processor Array (MPPA) chips from Kalrey together with the two NXP chips will be used in the new BlueBox 2.0.{{Cite web |last=Abuelsamid |first=Sam |title=NXP And Kalray Team Up On High-Performance Automated Driving Compute Platform |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/samabuelsamid/2019/01/08/nxp-and-kalray-team-up-on-high-performance-automated-driving-compute-platform/ |access-date=2023-10-04 |website=Forbes |language=en}} Together with Wistron, Kalray launched the FURIO1200 storage system in January 2021.{{Cite web |title=Wistron & Kalray unveil data centre storage appliance |url=https://datacenternews.asia/story/wistron-kalray-unveil-data-centre-storage-appliance |access-date=2023-10-04 |website=DataCenterNews Asia Pacific |language=en}}{{Cite news |date=2021-01-21 |title=Wistron and Kalray Announce FURIO1200™ Storage Appliance |language=en |work=Bloomberg.com |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/press-releases/2021-01-21/wistron-and-kalray-announce-furio1200-storage-appliance |access-date=2023-10-04}} The K200-LP accelerator card was launched in June 2021.{{Cite web |last=Flaherty |first=Nick |date=2021-06-16 |title=Kalray teams for multicore storage card in cloud and edge |url=https://www.eenewseurope.com/en/kalray-teams-for-multicore-storage-card-in-cloud-and-edge/ |access-date=2023-10-08 |website=eeNews Europe |language=en-US}}

Kalray was granted a fund from the French government in May 2023 to develop the Dolomites manycore processor.{{cite web|access-date=2024-04-22 |date=2023-05-11 |title=France funds sovereign AI with Kalray, Arteris, Secure-IC, Thales |publisher=eenewseurope.com |url=https://www.eenewseurope.com/en/france-funds-sovereign-ai-with-kalray-arteris-secure-ic-thales/}}{{cite web|access-date=2024-04-22 |date=2023-05-11 |title=Kalray, Arteris, Secure-IC, and Thales, Win the Call for Projects Related to the AI Acceleration Strategy of the "France Relance 2030 - Future Investments" Plan |publisher=design-reuse.com |url=https://www.design-reuse.com/news/54018/kalray-arteris-secure-ic-thales-france-relance-2030-future-investments-plan.html}}

Kalray chips are code-named after Mountains. However each chip is called a "MPPA" for "massively parallel processor array":

Produced in 2013 in CMOS 28HP technology from TSMC, this SoC (or System-on-Chip) runs at 400 MHz and contains 256 VLIW processing cores.

Produced in 2015 with the same CMOS 28HP technology from TSMC, this SoC running at 550 MHz was enhanced to increase the floating-point performance of the VLIW cores, to natively support the Linux operating system, and to process high-speed Ethernet (up to 80 Gbit/s). Each VLIW core was extended with a tightly coupled cryptographic coprocessor for security protocol acceleration.

Produced in 2017, this processor is based on the previous generation, Bostan, with an improved DDR controller, Ethernet controller and PCIe controller. As a result, this processor fully supports the NVM Express (NVMe) standard interface (for connecting hosts to PCIe bus-attached SSDs), and also the NVMe over Fabrics standard using RDMA (for connections between servers, storage controllers, and NVMe enclosures).

The third-generation MPPA processor Coolidge has been released.{{Cite news |date=2020-01-06 |title=Kalray unveils Coolidge at CES 2020 |language=en-US |work=Kalray |url=https://www.kalrayinc.com/kalray-unveils-coolidge-at-ces-2020-2/ |access-date=2020-01-06}} Based on TSMC 16 nm FinFET process technology, this processor includes 80 64-bit VLIW processing cores distributed among 5 clusters, 8x 25 Gbit/s Ethernet and 16x PCIe Gen4 interfaces. Each VLIW core is extended with a tightly coupled tensor co-processor for deep learning application acceleration.{{cite web|access-date=2024-01-05 |date=2017-05-24 |title=Kalray’s Coolidge processor adds deep learning acceleration |publisher=eenewseurope.com |url=https://www.eenewseurope.com/en/kalrays-coolidge-processor-adds-deep-learning-acceleration/}}

The Coolidge2 DPU Processor was released in 2023 and is aimed at LLMs, with an additional focus on efficient usage of NVME storage.{{cite web|access-date=2024-04-22 |date= 2023-06-06 |title=Kalray Announces Production Launch of ‘Coolidge2’ DPU Processor Optimized for AI and Intensive Data Processing |publisher=hpcwire.com |url=https://www.hpcwire.com/off-the-wire/kalray-announces-production-launch-of-coolidge2-dpu-processor-optimized-for-ai-and-intensive-data-processing/}}

In 2017, ahead of the launch of Kalray's third-generation microprocessor, Safran{{Cite news|url=https://www.safran-group.com/media/safran-acquires-stake-kalray-european-leader-new-generation-processors-critical-onboard-systems-20170622|title=Safran acquires stake in Kalray, European leader in new-generation processors for critical onboard systems|date=2017-06-21|work=Safran|access-date=2018-06-28}} and Pengpai joined the company's historical investors (mainly CEA Investissement, ACE, INOCAP).{{Cite news|url=http://www.kalrayinc.com/kalray-raises-26-million/|title=Kalray raises $26 million, anticipating the launch of its third generation of microprocessor - Kalray|date=2018-06-18|work=Kalray|access-date=2018-06-28|language=en-US}} In 2018, Alliance Ventures (strategic venture capital fund operated by Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi) and Definvest (an investment fund managed by Bpifrance on behalf of the French Ministry of Armed Forces) also acquired stakes in Kalray.{{Cite news|url=http://www.kalrayinc.com/alliance-ventures-and-definvest-acquire-stakes-in-kalray/|title=Alliance Ventures and Definvest acquire stakes in Kalray - Kalray|date=2018-05-02|work=Kalray|access-date=2018-06-28|language=en-US}}

On June 12, 2018, Kalray launched its IPO on the Euronext Paris Stock Market{{Cite news|url=https://www.leaprate.com/financial-services/exchanges/euronext-growth-market-announces-listing-of-kalray/|title=Euronext Growth market announces listing of Kalray|date=2018-06-13|work=LeapRate|access-date=2018-06-28|language=en-US}} and raised €47.7M (after exercise of the over-allocation option), "the most significant IPO since Euronext Growth was created in Paris."{{Cite news|url=http://www.kalrayinc.com/kalray-has-raised-43-5-m/|title=Kalray has raised €43.5M: the most significant IPO since Euronext Growth was created in Paris - Kalray|date=2018-06-07|work=Kalray|access-date=2018-06-28|language=en-US}}

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