Hardware
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Andrew Feldman 🇺🇸 Hardware Cerebras CEO 
Cerebras Systems Barrett Woodside 🇺🇸 Hardware Co-founded Positron AI, a company building energy-efficient AI inference accelerators. Positron AI 
Bill Dally 🇺🇸 Hardware NVIDIA Chief Scientist 
NVIDIA Corporation 
Brett Adcock 🇺🇸 Hardware Figure founder 
Figure AI C.C. Wei 🇹🇼 Hardware Chairman and CEO of TSMC, the world's largest contract chipmaker that manufactures the advanced-node silicon powering nearly all leading AI chips. Named among TIME's 100 most influential people in AI. 
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Chris Zhu Hardware Medeoprichter van Etched, dat een ASIC (Sohu) bouwt die specifiek voor transformer-modellen is geoptimaliseerd. 
Etched.ai, Inc. 
Christopher Ré 🇺🇸 Hardware Stanford professor and MacArthur Fellow, co-founder of SambaNova Systems building reconfigurable dataflow AI hardware. 
SambaNova Systems 
David Patterson 🇺🇸 Hardware Google researcher 
Google DeepMind Douglas Wightman 🇺🇸 Hardware Co-founded Groq, the company building LPU inference accelerators for large language models. 
Groq, Inc. Edward Kmett 🇺🇸 Hardware Co-founded Positron AI to build specialized AI inference hardware; widely known as a prolific contributor to the Haskell functional-programming ecosystem. Positron AI Gary Lauterbach 🇺🇸 Hardware Co-founder and CTO of Cerebras Systems, chip architect behind the wafer-scale AI processor, with earlier work at SeaMicro, AMD and DEC. Cerebras Systems Gavin Uberti 🇺🇸 Hardware Co-founder and CEO of Etched, building specialized ASICs designed to run transformer models faster and cheaper than general-purpose GPUs. Etched.ai, Inc. Gordon Wilson 🇺🇸 Hardware Co-founded Rain AI, developing energy-efficient neuromorphic hardware for AI compute. 
Rain AI 
Hock Tan 🇺🇸 Hardware President and CEO of Broadcom since 2006, growing it into a semiconductor and infrastructure-software giant central to AI networking and custom AI accelerator (XPU) silicon for hyperscalers. 
Broadcom Inc. Ivan Hamer Hardware Medeoprichter van Tenstorrent, een ontwikkelaar van AI-processors en RISC-V hardware. 
Tenstorrent Inc. Jack Kendall 🇺🇸 Hardware Co-founded Rain AI (Rain Neuromorphics), developing brain-inspired AI compute hardware. Rain AI Jean-Philippe Fricker Hardware Co-founded Cerebras Systems and serves as its Chief System Architect, building wafer-scale AI processors. Cerebras Systems 
Jensen Huang 🇺🇸 Hardware AI hardware acceleration NVIDIA Corporation 
Jesse Lyu 🇺🇸 Hardware Rabbit R1 creator 
Rabbit Inc. 
Jim Keller 🇺🇸 Hardware CEO of Tenstorrent, building RISC-V based AI processors. Legendary microprocessor architect behind AMD's Zen and K8, Apple's A4/A5 mobile chips, and Tesla's first self-driving chip. Tenstorrent Inc. 
John Hennessy 🇺🇸 Hardware Stanford president 
Jonathan Ross 🇺🇸 Hardware Groq CEO Groq, Inc. Juan Claudio Nino Hardware Co-founded Rain AI, contributing materials-science expertise to neuromorphic AI hardware. Rain AI June Paik 🇰🇷 Hardware Founder and CEO of FuriosaAI, a South Korean designer of AI inference chips positioned as an alternative to Nvidia GPUs. 
FuriosaAI Kim Hyo-eun 🇰🇷 Hardware Co-founded Rebellions Inc., a South Korean startup designing AI inference accelerator chips (NPUs). 
Rebellions Inc. 
Kunle Olukotun 🇺🇸 Hardware Co-founder and Chief Technologist of SambaNova Systems, Stanford professor and pioneer of the multicore processor. SambaNova Systems 
Lisa Su 🇺🇸 Hardware Chair and CEO of AMD since 2014, engineering AMD's turnaround into a leading AI and high-performance computing chipmaker with the Zen CPU and Instinct GPU lines. TIME's 2024 CEO of the Year. 
AMD Ljubisa Bajic 🇨🇦 Hardware Founder and former CEO of Tenstorrent, designing RISC-V-based AI accelerator processors. Tenstorrent Inc. Michael James 🇺🇸 Hardware Co-founder and chief architect of Cerebras Systems, maker of wafer-scale processors for AI workloads. Cerebras Systems Milos Trajkovic Hardware Co-founded Tenstorrent, a company designing AI processors and accelerator hardware. Tenstorrent Inc. Norman Jouppi 🇺🇸 Hardware Google TPU architect 
Google Cloud Oh Jin-wook 🇰🇷 Hardware Medeoprichter en CTO van Rebellions Inc., een Zuid-Koreaanse ontwerper van AI-inferentiechips. Rebellions Inc. 
Palmer Luckey 🇺🇸 Hardware Anduril founder 
Anduril Industries Park Sung-hyun 🇰🇷 Hardware Co-founded and leads Rebellions, a South Korean startup designing AI accelerator chips for data centers. Rebellions Inc. Robert Wachen 🇺🇸 Hardware Co-founded Etched, a startup building Sohu, an ASIC specialized for running transformer models. Etched.ai, Inc. Rodrigo Liang 🇺🇸 Hardware Co-founder and CEO of SambaNova Systems, which builds AI chips and full-stack systems for training and running large models. SambaNova Systems Sean Lie 🇺🇸 Hardware Co-founder and CTO of Cerebras Systems, creator of the wafer-scale engine, the largest chip built for AI workloads. Cerebras Systems Shin Sung-ho 🇰🇷 Hardware Co-founded Rebellions, a South Korean startup designing AI inference semiconductors. Rebellions Inc. Sid Sheth 🇺🇸 Hardware Co-founded d-Matrix, developing digital in-memory compute chips for AI inference. 
d-Matrix Corporation Simon Knowles 🇬🇧 Hardware Co-founder and CTO of Graphcore, pioneer of the Intelligence Processing Unit (IPU) for AI workloads. 
Graphcore Sudeep Bhoja 🇺🇸 Hardware Co-founded d-Matrix, a company designing in-memory-compute chips optimized for generative AI inference. d-Matrix Corporation Thomas Sohmers 🇺🇸 Hardware Co-founded Positron AI, building specialized hardware for accelerating AI inference. Positron AI 
Wang Xingxing 🇨🇳 Hardware Founder and CEO of Unitree Robotics, a leading Chinese maker of quadruped and humanoid robots. 
Unitree Robotics
Cerebras Systems Barrett Woodside 🇺🇸 Hardware Co-founded Positron AI, a company building energy-efficient AI inference accelerators. Positron AI Bill Dally 🇺🇸 Hardware NVIDIA Chief Scientist NVIDIA Corporation Brett Adcock 🇺🇸 Hardware Figure founder Figure AI C.C. Wei 🇹🇼 Hardware Chairman and CEO of TSMC, the world's largest contract chipmaker that manufactures the advanced-node silicon powering nearly all leading AI chips. Named among TIME's 100 most influential people in AI. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Chris Zhu Hardware Medeoprichter van Etched, dat een ASIC (Sohu) bouwt die specifiek voor transformer-modellen is geoptimaliseerd. Etched.ai, Inc. Christopher Ré 🇺🇸 Hardware Stanford professor and MacArthur Fellow, co-founder of SambaNova Systems building reconfigurable dataflow AI hardware. SambaNova Systems David Patterson 🇺🇸 Hardware Google researcher Google DeepMind Douglas Wightman 🇺🇸 Hardware Co-founded Groq, the company building LPU inference accelerators for large language models. Groq, Inc. Edward Kmett 🇺🇸 Hardware Co-founded Positron AI to build specialized AI inference hardware; widely known as a prolific contributor to the Haskell functional-programming ecosystem. Positron AI Gary Lauterbach 🇺🇸 Hardware Co-founder and CTO of Cerebras Systems, chip architect behind the wafer-scale AI processor, with earlier work at SeaMicro, AMD and DEC. Cerebras Systems Gavin Uberti 🇺🇸 Hardware Co-founder and CEO of Etched, building specialized ASICs designed to run transformer models faster and cheaper than general-purpose GPUs. Etched.ai, Inc. Gordon Wilson 🇺🇸 Hardware Co-founded Rain AI, developing energy-efficient neuromorphic hardware for AI compute. Rain AI Hock Tan 🇺🇸 Hardware President and CEO of Broadcom since 2006, growing it into a semiconductor and infrastructure-software giant central to AI networking and custom AI accelerator (XPU) silicon for hyperscalers. Broadcom Inc. Ivan Hamer Hardware Medeoprichter van Tenstorrent, een ontwikkelaar van AI-processors en RISC-V hardware. Tenstorrent Inc. Jack Kendall 🇺🇸 Hardware Co-founded Rain AI (Rain Neuromorphics), developing brain-inspired AI compute hardware. Rain AI Jean-Philippe Fricker Hardware Co-founded Cerebras Systems and serves as its Chief System Architect, building wafer-scale AI processors. Cerebras Systems Jensen Huang 🇺🇸 Hardware AI hardware acceleration NVIDIA Corporation Jesse Lyu 🇺🇸 Hardware Rabbit R1 creator Rabbit Inc. Jim Keller 🇺🇸 Hardware CEO of Tenstorrent, building RISC-V based AI processors. Legendary microprocessor architect behind AMD's Zen and K8, Apple's A4/A5 mobile chips, and Tesla's first self-driving chip. Tenstorrent Inc. John Hennessy 🇺🇸 Hardware Stanford president Jonathan Ross 🇺🇸 Hardware Groq CEO Groq, Inc. Juan Claudio Nino Hardware Co-founded Rain AI, contributing materials-science expertise to neuromorphic AI hardware. Rain AI June Paik 🇰🇷 Hardware Founder and CEO of FuriosaAI, a South Korean designer of AI inference chips positioned as an alternative to Nvidia GPUs. FuriosaAI Kim Hyo-eun 🇰🇷 Hardware Co-founded Rebellions Inc., a South Korean startup designing AI inference accelerator chips (NPUs). Rebellions Inc. Kunle Olukotun 🇺🇸 Hardware Co-founder and Chief Technologist of SambaNova Systems, Stanford professor and pioneer of the multicore processor. SambaNova Systems Lisa Su 🇺🇸 Hardware Chair and CEO of AMD since 2014, engineering AMD's turnaround into a leading AI and high-performance computing chipmaker with the Zen CPU and Instinct GPU lines. TIME's 2024 CEO of the Year. AMD Ljubisa Bajic 🇨🇦 Hardware Founder and former CEO of Tenstorrent, designing RISC-V-based AI accelerator processors. Tenstorrent Inc. Michael James 🇺🇸 Hardware Co-founder and chief architect of Cerebras Systems, maker of wafer-scale processors for AI workloads. Cerebras Systems Milos Trajkovic Hardware Co-founded Tenstorrent, a company designing AI processors and accelerator hardware. Tenstorrent Inc. Norman Jouppi 🇺🇸 Hardware Google TPU architect Google Cloud Oh Jin-wook 🇰🇷 Hardware Medeoprichter en CTO van Rebellions Inc., een Zuid-Koreaanse ontwerper van AI-inferentiechips. Rebellions Inc. Palmer Luckey 🇺🇸 Hardware Anduril founder Anduril Industries Park Sung-hyun 🇰🇷 Hardware Co-founded and leads Rebellions, a South Korean startup designing AI accelerator chips for data centers. Rebellions Inc. Robert Wachen 🇺🇸 Hardware Co-founded Etched, a startup building Sohu, an ASIC specialized for running transformer models. Etched.ai, Inc. Rodrigo Liang 🇺🇸 Hardware Co-founder and CEO of SambaNova Systems, which builds AI chips and full-stack systems for training and running large models. SambaNova Systems Sean Lie 🇺🇸 Hardware Co-founder and CTO of Cerebras Systems, creator of the wafer-scale engine, the largest chip built for AI workloads. Cerebras Systems Shin Sung-ho 🇰🇷 Hardware Co-founded Rebellions, a South Korean startup designing AI inference semiconductors. Rebellions Inc. Sid Sheth 🇺🇸 Hardware Co-founded d-Matrix, developing digital in-memory compute chips for AI inference. d-Matrix Corporation Simon Knowles 🇬🇧 Hardware Co-founder and CTO of Graphcore, pioneer of the Intelligence Processing Unit (IPU) for AI workloads. Graphcore Sudeep Bhoja 🇺🇸 Hardware Co-founded d-Matrix, a company designing in-memory-compute chips optimized for generative AI inference. d-Matrix Corporation Thomas Sohmers 🇺🇸 Hardware Co-founded Positron AI, building specialized hardware for accelerating AI inference. Positron AI Wang Xingxing 🇨🇳 Hardware Founder and CEO of Unitree Robotics, a leading Chinese maker of quadruped and humanoid robots. Unitree Robotics