Tenstorrent proclaims Olof Johansson as Vice President of O.S. and Infrastructure Software program

SANTA CLARA, Calif., March 21, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — Tenstorrent is happy to announce that Olof Johansson is becoming a member of the corporate as its Vice President of Working Techniques and Infrastructure Software program. Johansson is a widely known chief with deep experience in Linux, ARM, open supply software program, and main the design of modern software program stacks.

“Olof was one of many first folks I known as after I joined Tenstorrent and I’m excited we’ve him on-board,” mentioned Tenstorrent CEO Jim Keller. “He is without doubt one of the most hands-on executives I’ve ever labored with and can drive the event of each our software program technique and the software program stacks themselves.”

“Olof is a confirmed winner who is thought for getting issues carried out,” mentioned President and CTO Ljubisa Bajic. “His distinction within the software program trade and his experience in constructing achieved groups will assist us proceed to develop our software program group with high expertise.”

“The trade momentum round RISC-V is basically rising, and Tenstorrent’s RISC-V CPU and chiplet roadmap is extraordinarily spectacular,” mentioned Johansson. “I’m wanting ahead to delivering the software program that our clients and companions want to supply excellent system merchandise.”

Previous to becoming a member of Tenstorrent, Johansson led the software program groups in Meta’s Infrastructure {Hardware} group, together with ASIC FW/SW, OpenBMC and server enablement. Earlier than that, he labored with Jim Keller at Tesla on the software program platform for Tesla’s Autopilot silicon, on Chrome OS at Google, and in software program roles at Agnilux, Apple, PA Semi and IBM. He has been a lead SoC maintainer within the Linux group for over a decade, coordinating and guiding the platform contributions from the trade ARM distributors, and has served on the Linux Basis TAB, Zephyr venture board and TSC. He was born in Skellefteå, Sweden and holds a M.Sc in Laptop Science and Engineering from Luleå College of Expertise.

About Tenstorrent:

Tenstorrent is a next-generation computing firm that builds computer systems for AI. Headquartered in Toronto, Canada, with U.S. places of work in Austin, Texas, and Silicon Valley, and world places of work in Belgrade and Bangalore, Tenstorrent brings collectively consultants within the subject of pc structure, ASIC design, superior programs, and neural community compilers. Tenstorrent is backed by Eclipse Ventures and Actual Ventures, amongst others. Engineers keen about constructing computer systems for AI ought to go to Tentorrent’s careers web page on its web site.

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