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Hock Tan
Hock Tan is a Malaysian-born American executive, educated at MIT and Harvard, who has led Broadcom as president and CEO since 2006 through deals including VMware.
Hussein S. El-Ghoroury
Hussein S. El-Ghoroury is an American semiconductor entrepreneur who founded Ostendo Technologies in Carlsbad, California, in 2005, and leads its Quantum Photonic Imager microLED display chip.
Infinera
Infinera was an American optical networking company headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, founded in 2000, known for photonic integrated circuits and acquired by Nokia in February 2025.
Intersil
Intersil was an American semiconductor company founded in 1967 by Jean Hoerni, a Fairchild co-founder who invented the planar process; Renesas acquired it in 2017 for about $3.2 billion.
Jack Gifford
Jack Gifford, also known as John Gifford, was an American semiconductor executive who co-founded Maxim Integrated Products in 1983 and AMD in 1968, leading Maxim until 2006.
James C. Morgan
James C. Morgan is an American business executive who was CEO of Applied Materials from 1977 to 2003, growing it into the world's largest semiconductor equipment maker.
James E. Solomon
James E. Solomon (born 1936) is an American analog integrated-circuit engineer who founded SDA in 1983, which merged with ECAD in 1988 to form Cadence Design Systems.
James Sansbury
James Sansbury is an American semiconductor engineer who co-founded Altera in 1983, served as its Vice President of Technology until 1999, and pioneered the fabless chip model.
James V. Barnett II (Xilinx)
James V. Barnett II, known as Jim Barnett, is an American semiconductor executive who co-founded Xilinx in 1984, the company that created the field-programmable gate array.
Jason Cong
Jason Cong (Jingsheng Cong) is a distinguished professor of computer science at UCLA who directs the VAST Laboratory and founded five EDA startups, all acquired, three by Xilinx.
Jayshree Ullal
Jayshree Ullal, born 1961, is an American business executive who has led Arista Networks as CEO since 2008, taking the company public in 2014 after fifteen years at Cisco.
Jean Hoerni
Jean Hoerni (1924–1997) was a Swiss-born physicist who invented the planar process for manufacturing silicon transistors, co-founded Fairchild Semiconductor in 1957, and later founded the chip maker Intersil.
Jean-Philippe Fricker
Jean-Philippe Fricker is a Swiss-trained hardware engineer, EPFL graduate, and co-founder of Cerebras Systems, where he designed the Wafer Scale Engine interconnect as Chief System Architect.
Jerry Guo
Jerry Guo is a Chinese-American technology executive who founded Casa Systems, a broadband and 5G networking equipment company in Andover, Massachusetts, in 2003, leading it through its 2017 IPO until stepping down as CEO in 2023.
Jerry Kent
Jerry Kent, formally Jerald L. Kent, is an American cable television and technology entrepreneur from St. Louis who co-founded Charter Communications in 1993 and leads Cequel III and TierPoint.
Jerry Rogers
Jerry Rogers, born Gerald Dean Rogers (1944–2020), was an American semiconductor executive who co-founded chip designer Cyrix in 1988 and led it as CEO until 1996.
Jerry Sanders (semiconductor executive)
Jerry Sanders III, also known as W. J. Sanders III, is an American semiconductor executive who co-founded AMD in 1969 and served as its chief executive for 33 years until 2002.
Jim Rafferty
Jim Rafferty is a technology entrepreneur who co-founded C-Cube Microsystems, the Milpitas, California, semiconductor company that pioneered MPEG encoder and decoder silicon before its 2001 acquisition by LSI Logic.
Jitendra Mohan
Jitendra Mohan is an Indian-American semiconductor executive who co-founded Astera Labs in 2017 and serves as its chief executive officer, leading its 2024 Nasdaq IPO.
Jodi Shelton
Jodi Shelton is an American business executive who co-founded the Global Semiconductor Alliance in 1994, when it was the Fabless Semiconductor Association, and has led it as chief executive officer since.
John Chowning
John Chowning, born 1934, is an American composer and Stanford professor who discovered FM synthesis in 1967; Stanford licensed it to Yamaha, earning over $20 million and powering the DX7.
John E. Kelly III
John E. Kelly III is an American semiconductor and computing executive who spent 40 years at IBM, led IBM Research and Watson, and retired as executive vice president in 2020.
John P. Daane
John P. Daane is an American semiconductor executive who led Altera as president, CEO, and chairman from 2000 until Intel bought the company for about $16.7 billion in 2015.
John S. Chen
John S. Chen is a Hong Kong-born American technology executive who led Sybase's turnaround and served as BlackBerry's Executive Chair and CEO from 2013 to 2023.
John Tu
John Tu is a Chinese-born engineer who co-founded Kingston Technology with David Sun in 1987, sold 80% to Softbank for $1.5 billion in 1996, and bought it back in 1999.
Kam Eshghi
Kam Eshghi is a storage-industry executive and co-founder of Lightbits Labs, the San Jose company that developed NVMe over TCP for flash storage over Ethernet networks.
Kanwal Rekhi
Kanwal Rekhi (कनवल रेखी) is an Indian-American technology entrepreneur and investor who co-founded Excelan, a San Jose networking company listed on Nasdaq in 1987, and later co-founded TiE.
Ken Levy
Ken Levy is an American semiconductor entrepreneur who co-founded KLA Instruments, the Silicon Valley leader in automated chip inspection, and led it as chief executive for about 25 years.
KLA Corporation
KLA Corporation, formerly KLA-Tencor and KLA Instruments, is a San Jose semiconductor equipment company founded in 1975 that leads the process-control market with wafer inspection and metrology systems.
Kobi Alexander
Kobi Alexander, born Jacob Alexander, is an Israeli businessman who co-founded Comverse Technology, fled stock-options fraud charges to Namibia in 2006, and pleaded guilty in 2016.