Lippett, pictured, most recently the company’s COO, said: “I’m delighted to take up my appointment at such an exciting time for XMOS. A massive change is coming in the way that we engage with the electronics that surround us at home, at work and in the built environment. There will be billions of voice-aware products that we will use to talk to intelligent agents who will inform, entertain and manage our everyday tasks, and XMOS is a leader of many of those changes.”
According to the company, it will be integrating its various technologies – flexible I/O, embedded DSP and control processing – into one device that supports the development of innovative end user products.
XMOS emerged from darkness in 2007 with technology based on research performed at Bristol University by Professor David May. Called software defined silicon, the technology was intended to provide the cost advantages of SoCs with the flexibility of FPGAs. Essentially, the technology relied on tiles of generic 32bit RISC processors with associated memory blocks.
Since then, the company changed its focus to creating devices that competed with microcontrollers and, more recently, to providing voice and music processing and control ICs
