Philippe Notton is the founder and CEO of SiPearl, the company building high-performance energy-efficient European processors for supercomputing and artificial intelligence.
His original vision of SiPearl came in 2015 when Philippe was leading a division of 2,400 engineers at STMicroelectronics. In 2017, he joined Atos to help set up the European Processor Initiative (EPI) consortium, which aims to foster the return of high-performance processor 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 200 people.
SiPearl’s first generation processor, named Rhea1, will equip JUPITER, the first European exascale supercomputer. To date, SiPearl has raised a Series-A of €113m.
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).