BrainChip Appoints Antonio J. Viana as Chairman of the Board
February 28 2022 - 6:37PM
Business Wire
BrainChip Holdings Ltd (ASX: BRN, OTCQX: BRCHF, ADR: BCHPY), the
world’s first commercial producer of neuromorphic Al chips and IP,
today announced the appointment of Antonio J. Viana as Chairman of
the Board of Directors, effective immediately. Mr. Viana, who is
currently a BrainChip non-executive director and chair of the
Remuneration and Nomination Committee, replaces Emmanuel Hernandez
who is retiring and stepping down from the board.
Mr. Viana is a seasoned technology executive who has been a
major contributor to BrainChip since coming onto the board in June
of 2021. Mr. Viana has been instrumental in promoting and
implementing new performance planning and measurement processes, as
well as being the lead on the recruitment of BrainChip’s current
CEO. Prior to coming to BrainChip, Mr. Viana held several senior
executive positions at ARM Holdings including President and EVP of
Commercial and Global development, Global Director of the ARM
Foundry Program, and Executive VP of Worldwide Sales. Mr. Viana is
currently a non-executive director of Arteris Inc, a leading
provider of network-on-chip (NoC) interconnect and has been on
their board since 2016.
“Antonio’s extensive knowledge of the semiconductor ecosystem
and his demonstrated commitment to our continued growth and success
are invaluable assets to BrainChip,” said CEO Sean Hehir. “As
Chairman, in addition to supporting and driving shareholder
interests, he will continue to help us catalyze our commercial
focus and support the executive team to meet our market
objectives.”
Mr. Hernandez has left the Board effective immediately, as he
embarks on retirement after a remarkable career spanning 46 years.
Mr. Hernandez has served on the BrainChip board since 2017. A
search to add a new non-executive board member to replace Mr.
Hernandez is underway.
“I am a strong believer and advocate for BrainChip’s
neuromorphic approach to AI semiconductor design, and the market
opportunity ahead,” said Mr. Viana. “I am honored to work with this
incredible team of professionals and look forward to the continuing
journey of building BrainChip into a global technology market
leader. On behalf of the board and company, we congratulate Manny
on his incredible career, we thank him for his dedication to
BrainChip and wish him the best in his future endeavors.”
BrainChip deploys AI at the edge in a way that existing
technologies cannot. The company’s tech is both high-performance
and ultra-low power, enabling a range of capabilities including
on-chip, in-device one-shot learning. BrainChip’s IP can be used in
a wide range of applications from consumer electronics to
industrial IoT to electric vehicles, and smart sensors that can
detect and act on visual features, odors, taste, touch, and
sound.
About BrainChip Holdings Ltd (ASX: BRN, OTCQX: BRCHF, ADR:
BCHPY)
BrainChip is a global technology company that is producing a
ground-breaking neuromorphic processor that brings artificial
intelligence to the edge in a way that is beyond the capabilities
of other products. The chip is high performance, small, ultra-low
power and enables a wide array of edge capabilities that include
on-chip training, learning and inference. The event-based neural
network processor is inspired by the spiking nature of the human
brain and is implemented in an industry standard digital process.
By mimicking brain processing BrainChip has pioneered a processing
architecture, called Akida™, which is both scalable and flexible to
address the requirements in edge devices. At the edge, sensor
inputs are analyzed at the point of acquisition rather than through
transmission via the cloud to a data center. Akida is designed to
provide a complete ultra-low power and fast AI Edge Network for
vision, audio, olfactory and smart transducer applications. The
reduction in system latency provides faster response and a more
power efficient system that can reduce the large carbon footprint
of data centers.
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