Les Kohn co-founded Ambarella Inc. in 2004 along with other
Ambarella founding members to spearhead the development of
next-generation video compression technology. Prior to
co-founding Ambarella, Kohn was CTO and co-founder at Afara Websystems,
a startup that pioneered the development of throughput-oriented
microprocessor technology optimized for commercial server applications.
After Afara was acquired by Sun Microsystems in 2002, Kohn became a...
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Les Kohn co-founded Ambarella Inc. in 2004 along with other
Ambarella founding members to spearhead the development of
next-generation video compression technology.
Prior to
co-founding Ambarella, Kohn was CTO and co-founder at Afara Websystems,
a startup that pioneered the development of throughput-oriented
microprocessor technology optimized for commercial server applications.
After Afara was acquired by Sun Microsystems in 2002, Kohn became a
fellow at Sun where he continued the development of this technology and
helped throughput computing become the primary focus of Sun's roadmap
for its UltraSPARC processors.
Before joining Afara, Kohn was
chief architect of C-Cube Microsystems, where he lead the development
of three generations of digital video codecs, including the first
single-chip MPEG-2 and HD/multi-stream codecs.
Prior to
C-Cube, Kohn was a distinguished engineer at Sun where he was the chief
architect of Sun's first two 64-bit microprocessors: the UltraSPARC I
and II. In addition to these accomplishments, Kohn also served as
chief architect of the Intel i860 and co-architected the National 32000
microprocessor family.
Les Kohn holds a bachelor’s degree in physics from California Institute of Technology.
