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Kumar Malavalli
Kumar Malavalli (कुमार मलवल्ली) is a Silicon Valley founder and investor who co-founded Brocade Communications in 1995 and is credited as a principal architect of Fibre Channel.
L. J. Sevin
L. J. Sevin, born Leonce John Sevin Jr., is an American semiconductor executive who co-founded and led Mostek, then co-founded Sevin Rosen Funds, an early investor in Compaq.
Larry Boucher
Larry Boucher, also known as Lawrence Boucher, is an American storage-industry engineer who led the Shugart Associates team that developed SCSI, then founded Adaptec, Auspex Systems, and Alacritech.
Lattice Semiconductor
Lattice Semiconductor is an American semiconductor company in Hillsboro, Oregon, founded in 1983, that designs low-power field-programmable gate arrays and is the last major FPGA maker still independent.
Lawrence T. Pileggi
Lawrence T. Pileggi, also known as Larry Pileggi, is an American electrical engineer at Carnegie Mellon University, a pioneer of circuit simulation who received the 2023 Phil Kaufman Award.
Leo Koguan
Leo Koguan, also written KoGuan, is an Indonesian-born Chinese American billionaire who co-founded and chairs SHI International in New Jersey and is known as one of Tesla's largest individual shareholders.
Leonard Bosack
Leonard Bosack is an American networking engineer who co-founded Cisco Systems in 1984, building on router work at Stanford, and later founded the optical networking company XKL.
Lightbits Labs
Lightbits Labs is a private software-defined storage company founded in 2016, headquartered in San Jose, California, that builds disaggregated NVMe over TCP block storage software, shipping LightOS.
Linear Technology
Linear Technology Corporation was an American semiconductor company founded in 1981 by Robert Swanson and Robert Dobkin, headquartered in Milpitas, California, and acquired by Analog Devices in 2017.
LSI Computer Systems, Inc.
LSI Computer Systems, Inc. (LSI/CSI) is a privately held semiconductor company in Melville, New York, founded in 1969 by Attila Tetik and Alvin Kaplan to design custom integrated circuits.
LSI Logic
LSI Logic was an American semiconductor company founded in 1980 by Wilfred Corrigan in Milpitas, California, that pioneered the ASIC business model and was acquired by Avago Technologies for $6.6 billion.
Magma Design Automation
Magma Design Automation was a San Jose, California maker of electronic design automation software for chips, founded in 1997 and absorbed by Synopsys in 2012 for about $523 million.
Mark Durcan
Mark Durcan is an American semiconductor executive who was CEO of Micron Technology from 2012 to 2017, leading the Elpida acquisition and winning the industry's Robert N. Noyce Award.
Mark Horowitz (electrical engineer)
Mark Horowitz is an American electrical engineer and Stanford professor, chair of its electrical engineering department since 2023, who co-founded Rambus in 1990 and served as its chief scientist.
Marvell Technology
Marvell Technology, also known as Marvell Semiconductor, is an American fabless semiconductor company founded in 1995 that supplies data infrastructure chips, especially for data centers and AI.
Mary Jane Irwin
Mary Jane Irwin is an American computer scientist, Emerita Evan Pugh University Professor at Penn State, who anticipated power as a central chip design constraint and shaped the EDA industry.
Matthew Lorber
Matthew Lorber, also known as Matt Lorber, was an American engineer and entrepreneur who co-founded the semiconductor company Analog Devices in 1965 and later founded Copley Controls.
Maxim Integrated
Maxim Integrated Products, also called Maxim Integrated, was an American semiconductor company founded in 1983 that made analog chips and was acquired by Analog Devices in 2021.
Maxtor Corporation
Maxtor Corporation was an American hard disk drive manufacturer founded in 1982 and headquartered in San Jose, California, growing into one of the world's largest drive makers before Seagate acquired it in 2006.
Memorex
Memorex is an American consumer electronics brand founded in 1961 as a Silicon Valley maker of magnetic computer tape, famous for the slogan "Is it live or is it Memorex?"
Michael Fister
Michael Fister, known as Mike Fister, is a technology executive who served as president and CEO of Cadence Design Systems from 2004 to 2008, after 17 years at Intel.
Michael James (technology executive)
Michael James is a semiconductor engineer who co-founded Cerebras Systems in 2015 and serves as Chief Architect of Advanced Technologies, after earlier co-founding SeaMicro, sold to AMD in 2012.
Michael L. Hackworth
Michael L. Hackworth (1941–2012) was an American semiconductor executive who co-founded Cirrus Logic, growing it past $1 billion in revenue as a fabless chip pioneer.
Michael Magranet
Michael Magranet is an American semiconductor engineer and Fairchild veteran who co-founded Altera in 1983, served as its first director of marketing, and retired in 1989.
Michael McNeilly
Michael A. McNeilly, known as Mike McNeilly, was an American chemical engineer who founded semiconductor equipment maker Applied Materials in Mountain View, California, in 1967.
Mike Farmwald
Mike Farmwald is an American semiconductor entrepreneur who co-founded Rambus with Mark Horowitz in 1990, serving as its Chief Scientist, and later founded companies including FTL and Matrix Semiconductor.
Mike Splinter
Mike Splinter, an American semiconductor executive, led chip-equipment maker Applied Materials as president and CEO from 2003 to 2013 after earlier careers at Intel and Rockwell International.
Mitchell Bohn
Mitchell Bohn, known as Mick Bohn, is a semiconductor executive who co-founded the ASIC pioneer LSI Logic in California in 1981 and was its chief financial officer.
ModelSim
ModelSim is an HDL simulator developed by Model Technology under Mentor Graphics that simulates VHDL, Verilog, and SystemVerilog designs and is now sold by Siemens.
Mostek
Mostek was an American semiconductor company in Carrollton, Texas, founded in 1969, best known for pioneering address multiplexing in DRAM, holding 85 percent of the world market by 1976.