Summary
Calista Redmond is CEO of The RISC-V Foundation and a longtime tech executive. Redmond joined the RISC-V Foundation in March 2019.[1] Prior to her appointment, she spent 12 years at IBM and was vice president of the IBM Z ecosystem from 2016 to 2019.[1] As part of her work at IBM, Redmond was a director at OpenPOWER and was also involved with OpenDaylight and Open Mainframe Project.[2] Redmond received her MBA from the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business in 2006 and her BS from Northwestern University in 1996.[2]
RISC-V leadership edit
Redmond has actively led new initiatives for RISC-V since 2019, including developer conferences, partnerships with major tech companies and chip designers, and open source educational outreach.[3][4][5] Among these initiatives is Redmond's work to create the RISC-V partnership with the European Processor Initiative, involving chip research groups across the continent.[6] Redmond hosted RISC-V's annual summit in December 2020, partnering with Western Digital, Seagate Technology, Huawei, and ZTE.[7] Redmond has marketed RISC-V as an ARM alternative both previous to and following ARM's proposed acquisition by Nvidia.[8][9] Redmond also moved the RISC-V Foundation's headquarters from Delaware to Switzerland in 2019 in an effort to promote the economic and political neutrality of the architecture after US politicians raised concerns about the use of RISC-V by Chinese tech companies.[10][11][12]
References edit
- ^ a b "The RISC-V Foundation Appoints Calista Redmond as Chief Executive Officer". www.businesswire.com. 2019-03-12. Retrieved 2020-12-15.
- ^ a b "Calista Redmond | Design Automation Conference". dac.com. Retrieved 2020-12-15.
- ^ "Will RISC-V be a contender now that Nvidia is buying Arm?". VentureBeat. 2020-09-27. Retrieved 2020-12-15.
- ^ "The world is big enough! - Calista Redmond, CEO RISC-V". eeNews Embedded. 2020-03-01. Retrieved 2020-12-15.
- ^ "'RISC-V is ushering in a new era of silicon design and processor innovation' - Press". HiPEAC. Retrieved 2020-12-15.
- ^ "RISC-V: Calista Redmond interview". ArchiTecnologia (in Spanish). 2020-02-05. Retrieved 2020-12-15.
- ^ "Week In Review: Design, Low Power". Semiconductor Engineering. 2020-12-11. Retrieved 2020-12-15.
- ^ "RISC-V grows globally as an alternative to Arm and its license fees". VentureBeat. 2019-12-11. Retrieved 2020-12-15.
- ^ Dahad, Nitin (2020-09-18). "RISC-V speaks on options after Nvidia-Arm news". Embedded.com. Retrieved 2020-12-15.
- ^ Manners, David (2019-11-26). "RISC-V Foundation moves to Switzerland". Electronics Weekly. Retrieved 2020-12-15.
- ^ "RISC-V Foundation headquarters has officially moved to Switzerland - Code World". www.codetd.com. Retrieved 2020-12-15.
- ^ Alper, Stephen Nellis, Alexandra (2019-11-26). "U.S.-based chip-tech group moving to Switzerland over trade curb fears". Reuters. Retrieved 2020-12-15.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)