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Co-founders of Qualcomm
The five lesser-known Qualcomm co-founders besides Irwin Jacobs and Andrew Viterbi were Harvey White, Adelia Coffman, Franklin Antonio, Andrew Cohen, and Klein Gilhousen, all former Linkabit colleagues who met in July 1985.
Cobilt
Cobilt was a California maker of semiconductor manufacturing equipment, founded in 1970, known for automated contact mask aligners and the 1974 Autofab resist processing system.
Curtis Priem
Curtis Priem is an American electrical engineer who co-founded Nvidia in 1993 and served as its chief technical officer until 2003, after designing the IBM Professional Graphics Adapter.
Cypress Semiconductor
Cypress Semiconductor was a San Jose, California semiconductor company founded by T. J. Rodgers in 1982, best known for SRAMs, PSoC microcontrollers, and connectivity chips; Infineon acquired it in 2020.
Cyrix Corp.
Cyrix Corp. was a fabless American microprocessor company founded in 1988 by former Texas Instruments engineers, whose x86 chips competed with Intel until National Semiconductor bought it in 1997.
David Bakalar
David Bakalar was an American physicist and semiconductor entrepreneur who co-founded Transitron Electronic Corporation with his brother Leo in 1952, pioneering the gold-bonded germanium diode and silicon rectifiers.
David Cheriton
David Cheriton is a Canadian-born computer scientist and Stanford professor emeritus who co-founded Arista Networks and whose $100,000 angel investment in Google in 1998 grew into a multibillion-dollar fortune.
David K. Lam
David K. Lam (林杰屏) is a China-born American engineer and entrepreneur who founded semiconductor equipment maker Lam Research in 1980, introducing the first fully automated plasma etching system.
David Sun (businessman)
David Sun (孫大衛) is a Taiwanese-born American engineer who co-founded Kingston Technology in 1987 and serves as its chief operating officer, holding a 50% stake alongside co-founder John Tu.
Diamond Multimedia
Diamond Multimedia, also known as Diamond Computer Systems, was a California maker of PC peripherals, including Stealth graphics cards, Supra modems, and the Rio MP3 player, acquired by S3 in 1999.
Donald O. Pederson
Donald O. Pederson (1925–2004) was an American professor of electrical engineering at UC Berkeley who led the creation of SPICE, the circuit simulator from which most modern chip-design tools descend.
Dr. John Hennessy
John L. Hennessy is an American computer scientist who cofounded MIPS Computer Systems and Atheros Communications, served as Stanford's 10th president from 2000 to 2016, and won the 2017 Turing Award.
Edmund Sun
Edmund Sun is an American semiconductor entrepreneur who co-founded C-Cube Microsystems in California in 1988, serving as its first president and CEO; he also founded Weitek.
EMC Corporation
EMC Corporation was an American data storage company founded in Massachusetts in 1979 by Richard Egan and Roger Marino, acquired by Dell in 2016 for $67 billion.
Eran Kirzner
Eran Kirzner is the co-founder and chief executive officer of Lightbits Labs, the San Jose, California company behind the LightOS software-defined NVMe over TCP storage platform, founded in 2016.
Ernest S. Kuh
Ernest Shiu-Jen Kuh (1928–2015) was a Chinese-born American electrical engineer, professor, and dean of engineering at UC Berkeley, and a founding figure of the electronic design automation industry.
Exabyte Corporation
Exabyte Corporation was an American data-storage company in Boulder, Colorado, founded in 1985, that introduced the first 8mm tape drive for computer backup in 1987.
Excelan
Excelan was a networking company founded in January 1982 by Kanwal Rekhi, Navindra Jain, and Inder Singh to sell Ethernet boards with TCP/IP, merging into Novell in 1989.
Fabless Semiconductor Association
The Fabless Semiconductor Association (FSA) was a semiconductor industry trade group co-founded by Jodi Shelton in 1994 to champion the fabless model of designing chips without owning factories.
Federico Faggin
Federico Faggin, born 1941 in Vicenza, Italy, is an Italian-born physicist and semiconductor designer who built the Intel 4004, the first commercial microprocessor, then co-founded Zilog.
Finis Conner
Finis Conner is an American disk-drive industry executive who helped found Shugart Associates, Seagate Technology in 1979, and Conner Peripherals, which Seagate acquired in 1996.
Franklin Antonio
Franklin Antonio (1953–2022) was an American engineer and philanthropist who co-founded Qualcomm in San Diego in 1985, served as chief scientist, and left nearly $200 million to the Summer Science Program.
Frederick Krehbiel
Frederick August Krehbiel was an American inventor and businessman who founded Molex in Brookfield, Illinois, in 1938, after he and his son developed a moldable plastic.
Gary Lauterbach
Gary Lauterbach is a computer architect who co-founded Cerebras Systems in 2015, served as its CTO, and earlier was chief architect of Sun Microsystems' UltraSPARC III and IV processors.
Gateway Design Automation
Gateway Design Automation was an American electronic design automation company, founded by Prabhu Goel in 1982, that developed the Verilog hardware description language and Verilog-XL simulator.
George Perlegos
George Perlegos (Γιώργος Πελέγος) is a Greek-born American semiconductor engineer who pioneered EEPROM memory at Intel, founded Atmel in 1984, and led it until his 2006 ouster.
George Scalise
George Scalise is an American semiconductor executive who led the Semiconductor Industry Association from 1997 to 2010 after senior roles at Apple and National Semiconductor.
Global Semiconductor Alliance
The Global Semiconductor Alliance (GSA) is a Dallas, Texas-based trade association for the semiconductor industry, founded in 1994 as the Fabless Semiconductor Association and renamed in 2007.
Gordon Campbell (semiconductor executive)
Gordon A. Campbell is an American semiconductor executive, formerly of Intel, who co-founded Chips and Technologies in 1984 and is credited with pioneering the fabless model of chip design.
Henry Nicholas
Henry Nicholas is an American businessman and electrical engineer who co-founded the semiconductor company Broadcom in 1991 and led it as president and CEO until 2003.