FuriosaAI, an artificial intelligence semiconductor company, is stepping up its push into the AI infrastructure market by hiring a senior executive with experience at major global technology firms.
FuriosaAI said April 22 that it has appointed Charlie Foo, who helped expand AI infrastructure and enterprise ecosystems at Nvidia and Mellanox, as principal advisor.
The hire comes as FuriosaAI moves to commercialize its AI chip, RNGD (Renegade), globally. The company recently established a subsidiary in Portugal and said it is accelerating its expansion into overseas markets by bringing in top-tier talent.
Foo is an AI computing specialist with about 35 years of experience at IBM, Brocade, Mellanox and Nvidia. He previously led Mellanox operations across Asia-Pacific and Japan and worked on expanding Nvidia’s enterprise and partner ecosystem in the Asia-Pacific region, the company said.
FuriosaAI said Foo will advise its overall global growth strategy, focusing on expanding strategic partnerships, building an enterprise customer base and developing an AI infrastructure ecosystem.
“The next phase of AI depends not just on model performance, but on how efficiently it can be deployed at scale,” Foo said. He added that FuriosaAI “has strong competitiveness in the global AI infrastructure market” because it combines a differentiated architecture with mass-production capability.
Chief Executive Baek Jun-ho said the company has entered “a full-fledged growth phase” based on mass production of RNGD and that more talent with global experience is joining. “This hire will further accelerate strategic expansion and partnership building in global markets,” Baek said.
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