Vivian Blanchard

Vice President R&D Hardware

Vivian Blanchard leads all hardware research and development teams in the four countries of operation, France, Germany, Italy and Spain.

Vivian’s career to date has been in research and development working for Bull and Atos in the computing domain and especially HPC. He kickstarted as a physical design engineer, then held several positions in logical design, servers and ASIC architecture. Before joining SiPearl, he took up responsibility of Atos’ ASIC Research & Development department.

Vivian worked with Philippe Notton, CEO and founder of SiPearl, and Ying Chih-Yang, CTO, toward the launch of the European Processor Initiative consortium project which incubated SiPearl.

Vivian has a Master’s Degree CPE Lyon.