About Kalray
Kalray is a French fabless semiconductor company that makes data processing units, or DPUs. A DPU is a many-core chip that offloads storage, networking and AI data handling from the main server processor. Its MPPA family, which stands for massively parallel processor array, includes the Coolidge2 processor and accelerator cards sold for AI, storage and telecom edge uses. Kalray was founded in 2008 as a spin-off of the French research body CEA and has been listed on Euronext since its 2018 IPO. In 2025 it sold its software activities to DataCore Software.
Kalray was founded in 2008 and is based in Grenoble, France. It is listed under AI Accelerators.
Compute Technologies
- AI Accelerators
What Kalray works on
AI Accelerators
An AI accelerator is a chip, or a part of a chip, designed to run machine learning faster or with less energy than a general-purpose processor. The category includes GPUs, TPUs, neural processing units (NPUs) and chips from many startups.
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