Paul Elford

Semiconductor Test Engineering Manager at Graphcore

Paul Elford is an experienced Semiconductor Test Engineering Manager at Graphcore since May 2018, where responsibilities include managing an international team to develop in-house production test solutions for AI processors. Prior roles include Principal NPI Product Engineer at Sequans Communications and Director of Product and Test Engineering at Semtech, where Paul led teams on new product introductions for various markets and developed automated test equipment processes. Previous positions at Phyworks, Mindspeed, Pixelfusion, Newport Wafer Fab, and GEC Plessey Semiconductors further enriched Paul's expertise in test engineering and product management. Paul holds a BEng (Hons) degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Plymouth.

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Graphcore

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Graphcore has created a new processor, the Intelligence Processing Unit (IPU), specifically designed for artificial intelligence. The IPU’s unique architecture means developers can run current machine learning models orders of magnitude faster. More importantly, it lets AI researchers undertake entirely new types of work, not possible using current technologies, to drive the next great breakthroughs in general machine intelligence.


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