Kalray launches ES3CAP as lead partner: a 22.2 M€ budget ambitious industrial project for the development of the future computing platform for intelligent systems - Kalray

Financing of €11.7m obtained under the Bpifrance Invest for the Future Program (Programme d'Investissements d'Avenir -- PIA). Grenoble, February 6, 2019 -- Kalray (Euronext Growth Paris: ALKAL), a pioneer in processors for new intelligent systems, today announces the launch of the collaborative ES3CAP program[1], combining 11 industrial and academic partners, for which Kalray is the lead partner. The ES3CAP program, with a total budget of €22.2m over three years, will receive €11.7 million[2]in financing under the Invest for the Future Program[3], managed by Bpifrance, to contribute to finance the research activities. The objective of the ES3CAP project is to build a hardware and software platform for manufacturers developing critical applications that require high-performance computing capacity, in the fields of aeronautics (aviation, flying taxis, drones), defense and self-driving vehicles. It comprises an entire ecosystem of partners working on complementary aspects of operating systems and real-time, critical software tools, computer vision, data fusion and artificial intelligence, all on a reliable and secure hardware platform, Kalray's MPPA ("Massively Parallel Processor Array").