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AWS Elemental history
AWS Elemental company history timeline
Elemental was founded in 2006 by three engineers formerly of the semiconductor company Pixelworks: Sam Blackman (CEO), Jesse Rosenzweig (CTO), and Brian Lewis.
In July 2012, Elemental products supported the broadcast of the 2012 Summer Olympics on internet devices for media companies including the BBC, Eurosport, Terra Networks and others.
In September 2013, Elemental was named to the Silicon Forest top 25 by The Oregonian.
In October 2013, Elemental provided live 4K HEVC video streaming of the 2013 Osaka Marathon in a workflow designed by K-Opticom, a telecommunications operator in Japan.
In 2015, during security testing conducted as a prelude to a possible acquisition by Amazon, it was reported that some Elemental servers contained chips from Chinese manufacturing subcontractors that allowed backdoor access.
In April 2017, the company changed its name from Elemental Technologies to AWS Elemental.
In August 2017, Sam Blackman, the company's CEO and co-founder, died suddenly from cardiac arrest at the age of 41.
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