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Andrew Richards AI HPC 2022

October 24, 2022

CEO and co-founder of Codeplay, a pioneer in GPU acceleration, Andrew started his career writing video games in the days of 8-bit computers, progressing to write best-selling titles such as Pete Sampras Tennis. Andrew researched and developed early GPU compiler technology, and founded Codeplay in 2002. Codeplay have been producing compilers for games consoles, special-purpose processors and GPUs since then. Andrew chaired the SYCL standards group for its early years, which is now gaining rapid adoption, including now the C++ programming model for Intel’s oneAPI. Today, Codeplay is a world-leading specialist in heterogeneous computing technology, now working on extreme challenges from exascale to artificial intelligence and safety for self-driving cars. In July 2022, Codeplay became a subsidiary of Intel.