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Bernardo Kastrup

Bernardo Kastrup is a computer engineer and AI hardware founder whose work connects reconfigurable computing with AI inference systems. He studied electronic engineering in Brazil, earned a computer-engineering doctorate at Eindhoven, co-founded Silicon Hive, and programmed CERN's ATLAS trigger system. His career includes a philosophy doctorate at Radboud in 2019 and a public course on analytic idealism for Essentia Foundation in 2021. Euclyd unveiled CRAFTWERK in 2025, an inference architecture with custom processors and memory; as of October 2026, he is the company's founder and CEO.

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Euclyd
Works
36
Citations
382
h-index
7
Badges

Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 18 October 2026.

Timeline

  1. 1997

    Undergraduate engineering study

    In 1997, he completes undergraduate studies in electronic engineering at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.

  2. 2001

    A computer-engineering doctorate

    At Eindhoven University of Technology, he earns a computer-engineering PhD focused on artificial intelligence and reconfigurable computing in 2001.

  3. 2011

    Co-founding Silicon Hive

    Silicon Hive, a parallel-processor company he co-founds, is acquired by Intel in 2011. His career also includes work as a technology strategist at ASML.

  4. By 2018

    Programming the ATLAS trigger

    By 2018, he leaves CERN for corporate technology development after programming ATLAS's trigger system to select collision data. His scientific work also includes Philips Research Laboratories.

  5. 2019

    A philosophy doctorate

    In 2019, he earns a second philosophy PhD at Radboud University Nijmegen with Analytic Idealism: A consciousness-only ontology.

  6. 2021

    Teaching analytic idealism

    Essentia Foundation releases his seven-video, six-hour course on analytic idealism in 2021.

  7. 2025

    Introducing CRAFTWERK

    Euclyd unveils CRAFTWERK in 2025, an inference architecture for agentic AI with custom SIMD processors and ultra-bandwidth memory; Kastrup is its founder and CEO.

  8. As of October 2026

    Leading Euclyd's AI platform

    As of October 2026, he is founder and CEO of EUCLYD, which develops programmable ASIC compute, processor-memory co-design, and datacenter systems for AI inference.

Career

  1. NowEuclydFounder and CEO
  2. Until 2018European Organization for Nuclear Research
  3. 2010ASM InternationalTechnology strategist
  4. 2000–2003Philips
  5. Silicon HiveCo-founder

Education

  1. 2019Radboud University NijmegenPhD
  2. 2001Eindhoven University of TechnologyPhD
  3. 1997Federal University of Rio de JaneiroUndergraduate studies in electronic engineering

From the biography and OpenAlex affiliations (the years of papers that list the organization), so some years are approximate.

Most-cited works

  1. The Universe in Consciousness2018 · 113 citations
  2. ConCISe: a compiler-driven CPLD-based instruction set accelerator2003 · IEEE Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines (FCCM) · 91 citations
  3. An Ontological Solution to the Mind-Body Problem2017 · Philosophies · 38 citations
  4. On the Plausibility of Idealism: Refuting Criticisms2017 · Disputatio · 35 citations
  5. The Next Paradigm2018 · Future Human Image · 18 citations

From OpenAlex, as of 18 October 2026.

  1. The company share of AI researchers’ top papers rose from 3% to 32%Includes Philips. We estimate where leading AI researchers worked when their most-cited papers appeared. The company share rose from 3% in 1975–1979 to 32% in 2020–2024.
  2. More people shaping AI studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology than at any other institutionIncludes Eindhoven University of Technology. Our estimates of where the people shaping AI studied and where their careers led, from education records in cited biographies.
  3. Google had the most people shaping AI every year from 2014 to 2025Our estimates of which organizations employed the most people shaping AI from 1961 to 2025, with a year-by-year chart.
  4. The United States employs an estimated 53% of people in our data with a known employment countryOur estimates of where AI careers are concentrated now and how countries’ shares of dated positions changed over time.

Colleagues

People with dated positions at the same organization in the same years.

Sources and credits

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  1. Bernardo Kastrup - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org. Checked 18 October 2026.
  2. Information for the media ~ Bernardo Kastrup, PhD, PhD bernardokastrup.com. Checked 18 October 2026.
  3. Bernardo Kastrup - Closer To Truth closertotruth.com. Checked 18 October 2026.
  4. Old loves die hard: My story with CERN ~ Bernardo Kastrup, PhD, PhD bernardokastrup.com. Checked 18 October 2026.
  5. History for Kastrup, Bernardo (2019) "Analytic Idealism: A consciousness-only ontology". - PhilPapers philpapers.org. Checked 18 October 2026.
  6. Our free Analytic Idealism Course is now online! | Essentia Foundation essentiafoundation.org. Checked 18 October 2026.
  7. Euclyd Unveils CRAFTWERK: The World’s Most Power-Efficient Exascale Token Factory for Agentic AI einpresswire.com. Checked 18 October 2026.
  8. EUCLYD Raises Over €200 Million to Break the AI Efficiency Wall | Euclyd euclyd.ai. Checked 18 October 2026.