Doug will discuss how InspireSemi addressed early funding challenges during the pandemic, going public on the TSXV exchange, and share why the team chose to leverage the open hardware RISC-V Instruction Set Architecture vs. other options. This RISC-V based "supercomputer-cluster-on-a-chip" packs 1,800 high performance CPU cores (all FP64 double-precision of their own design) onto a single SOC (System on Chip). Initial product will be a PCIe card for standard servers with 4 chips: >7,000 cores yielding >32TFLOPS of performance, with best-in-class energy usage.

"We developed what customers always wanted - not 'yet another GPU' "

Doug began his career in product development at IBM and moved into the sales & marketing organization to expand IBM's reach into new engineering/scientific markets. He then went on to various senior leadership positions at Cadence Design Systems, CoWare, Newisys, Virtual Instruments, Nimbix, and other early-stage companies.

Doug is also President of the Society of HPC Professionals (SHPCP), a non-profit, vendor-neutral organization whose purpose is to educate and connect the HPC user community, industry, and academia with state-of-the-art technology and best practices. He is also a contributor to the RISC-V International SIG-HPC as well as the RISC-V marketing and events committees. He serves on the Venture Mentoring Service for the Austin Technology Incubator (ATI) at The University of Texas and is a technology and business advisor to HealthClicks. Doug earned a BS in Electrical Engineering, cum laude, from Missouri University of Science & Technology.

Doug is also a board member of TAG.