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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. | 