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Adapteva is a fabless semiconductor company focusing on low power many core microprocessor design. The company was the second company to announce a design with 1,000 specialized processing cores on a single chip.
Adapteva was founded in March 2008, by Andreas Olofsson with the goal of bringing a 10× advancement in floating point performance per watt for the mobile device market. The company is known for products based on its Epiphany scalable multi-core MIMD architecture and it's Parallella Kickstarter project promoting "a supercomputer for everyone" in September 2012.
The company name is a combination of "adapt" and the Hebrew word "Teva" meaning nature. The name is a reflection of the company's key technology and business philosophy.