About Thales Group
Thales is a French group that supplies electronics and systems for aerospace, defense and security. Its range includes avionics, radar and surveillance systems, military communications, cybersecurity and software. It is not a chip company, so its link to compute is mainly through the mission computers and processing systems built into its products. Its roots go back to Compagnie Francaise Thomson-Houston in 1893, and it took the Thales name in December 2000. The group is headquartered in Paris, and the French state held 26.6 percent of its ordinary shares in June 2025.
Thales Group was founded in 2000 and is based in Paris, France. It is listed under ASICs, AI Accelerators.
Compute Technologies
- ASICs
- AI Accelerators
What Thales Group works on
ASICs
An ASIC, or application-specific integrated circuit, is a chip designed to do one job or a narrow set of jobs. Its circuits are fixed when the chip is made. A CPU can run any program; an ASIC does what it was designed for and nothing else.
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.
