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Aart de Geus
Aart de Geus is a Dutch-born technology executive who co-founded Synopsys in 1986, pioneered commercial logic synthesis, and served as its chief executive for three decades before becoming Executive Chair in 2024.
Adaptec, Inc.
Adaptec, Inc. was a computer storage company, founded in 1981 by Larry Boucher and two colleagues, that became the dominant maker of SCSI host bus adapters and RAID controllers.
Alain Rossman
Alain Rossman is a French-educated Silicon Valley technology executive who co-founded chipmaker C-Cube Microsystems in 1988, then founded Unwired Planet, known as the father of WAP, and Vudu.
Alan R. Pearlman
Alan R. Pearlman (1925–2019) was an American engineer who founded ARP Instruments in 1969, whose synthesizers outsold Moog by the mid-1970s before the company's 1981 bankruptcy.
Alvin B. Phillips
Alvin B. Phillips (1929–2018) was an American semiconductor executive who founded Western Digital in Southern California in 1970 and served as its president until 1976, before the company pivoted to storage.
Alvin Kaplan
Alvin Kaplan is an American semiconductor engineer who co-founded LSI Computer Systems in Melville, New York, with Attila Tetik in 1969, designing custom mixed-signal integrated circuits.
Andrzej J. Strojwas
Andrzej J. Strojwas is an electrical engineer and Carnegie Mellon professor emeritus who co-founded PDF Solutions, the semiconductor yield-analytics company, and serves as its Chief Technology Officer.
Anirudh Devgan
Anirudh Devgan is a technology executive who has served as president and CEO of Cadence Design Systems since 2021, after leading its research and development from 2012.
Apple in China
Apple in China describes Apple's two-way dependence on China: most iPhones are assembled there, Chinese consumers account for about 17% of sales, and diversification into India and Vietnam is under way.
Arteris
Arteris, Inc. is a Campbell, California-based semiconductor IP company founded in 2004 and listed on Nasdaq as AIP; its network-on-chip interconnect technology has shipped in more than 4 billion chips and chiplets.
Atheros Communications
Atheros Communications was a California developer of wireless chipsets, founded in 1998 by Stanford's Teresa Meng and John Hennessy, and acquired by Qualcomm in 2011 for $3.1 billion.
Atmel
Atmel Corporation was an American semiconductor company in San Jose, California, founded by George Perlegos in 1984 and known for its AVR microcontrollers; Microchip Technology acquired it in 2016.
Attila Tetik
Attila Tetik is a semiconductor executive who co-founded LSI Computer Systems in Melville, New York, in 1969 with Alvin Kaplan after developing CPU circuits for Control Data Corporation.
Bernard V. Vonderschmitt
Bernard V. Vonderschmitt was an American engineer who co-founded the chipmaker Xilinx in 1984 and pioneered the fabless model of designing chips without owning factories.
Bill Carter
Bill Carter, full name William S. Carter, is a retired American semiconductor engineer who was the principal designer of the XC2064, the first commercial FPGA, at Xilinx.
Bill O'Meara
Bill O'Meara (William J. O'Meara) is an American semiconductor executive who co-founded LSI Logic in 1980, led its marketing and sales, and later served as CEO of C-Cube Microsystems.
Bluespec
Bluespec is a high-level hardware description language built on guarded atomic actions (rules), whose compiler synthesizes designs into standard Verilog, with two interchangeable syntaxes, BSV and BH.
Brocade Communications Systems
Brocade Communications Systems was a San Jose, California company that built Fibre Channel switches for storage area networks, later acquired by Broadcom for about $6.1 billion in 2017.
BV Jagadeesh
BV Jagadeesh is an Indian-born Silicon Valley entrepreneur and investor who co-founded data-center pioneer Exodus Communications and led NetScaler as CEO until Citrix acquired it in 2005.
C-Cube Microsystems
C-Cube Microsystems was a Milpitas, California semiconductor company founded in 1988 that pioneered MPEG video compression chips, powering Video CD, satellite, and DVD players before LSI Logic acquired it in 2001 for about $878 million.
C. Norman Winningstad
C. Norman "Norm" Winningstad (1925–2010) was an American engineer and businessman in Oregon who founded Floating Point Systems, helped launch Lattice Semiconductor, and was a Silicon Forest philanthropist.
Cambium Networks
Cambium Networks is an American wireless broadband equipment company, formed in 2011 from Motorola Solutions' point-to-point and point-to-multipoint businesses, serving wireless ISPs, enterprises, and governments.
Casa Systems, Inc.
Casa Systems, Inc. was a broadband and mobile networking equipment company in Andover, Massachusetts, founded by Jerry Guo in 2003 and listed on Nasdaq in 2017.
Casey Morrison
Casey Morrison is an American semiconductor executive who co-founded Astera Labs in 2017 and serves as its Chief Product Officer, leading its AI connectivity chips.
Charlene Barshefsky
Charlene Barshefsky is an American trade lawyer who served as US Trade Representative from 1997 to 2001, brokering the 1999 agreement that set terms for China's WTO entry.
Charles Sporck
Charles E. Sporck (1927-2024) was an American semiconductor executive who built National Semiconductor from near bankruptcy into a billion-dollar chip company as CEO from 1967 to 1991.
Chenming Hu
Chenming Hu (胡正明), born 1947 in Beijing, is a UC Berkeley electrical engineer who led the team that invented the FinFET transistor and created the BSIM standard model.
Chips & Technologies
Chips & Technologies was an American semiconductor company founded in 1984 that made chipsets and graphics controllers for IBM PC-compatible computers, and was acquired by Intel in 1997.
Chris Malachowsky
Chris Malachowsky is an American electrical engineer who co-founded Nvidia in April 1993 with Jensen Huang and Curtis Priem, and serves as a Founder and NVIDIA Fellow.
Cirrus Logic, Inc.
Cirrus Logic, Inc. is a fabless semiconductor company founded in 1984 and headquartered in Austin, Texas, that designs low-power mixed-signal chips, mostly audio components for smartphones, its largest customer being Apple.