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MP Associates
MP Associates is an American conference and trade show management company founded in 1984 by Pat and Marie Pistilli to manage the Design Automation Conference, the flagship EDA industry event.
Muli Ben-Yehuda
Muli Ben-Yehuda is an Israeli virtualization and storage engineer who co-founded Lightbits Labs in 2016 and is one of the inventors of the NVMe/TCP storage standard.
Multibeam Corporation
Multibeam Corporation is a privately held American semiconductor equipment company in Sunnyvale, California, founded in 2010 by David K. Lam, founder of Lam Research, that builds maskless multicolumn electron-beam lithography systems.
Narpat Bhandari
Narpat Bhandari is a Silicon Valley semiconductor engineer and entrepreneur, born in Sojat, India, who founded Aspen Semiconductor, cofounded The Indus Entrepreneurs in 1992, and holds over 30 patents.
Ned Barnholt
Edward W. (Ned) Barnholt (born 1943) is an American business executive who spent 33 years at Hewlett-Packard before leading Agilent Technologies as CEO from its 1999 spin-off until 2005.
Nexus Research Laboratory, Inc.
Nexus Research Laboratory, Inc. was an early-1960s American maker of analog modules and operational amplifiers in Canton, Massachusetts, founded by Roger Noble and Alan R. Pearlman.
Novellus Systems
Novellus Systems was a San Jose, California maker of thin-film deposition equipment for chips, founded in 1984 and acquired by Lam Research in 2012 for about $3.3 billion.
Pantas Sutardja
Pantas Sutardja is an engineer who co-founded the chip company Marvell Technology with his brother Sehat Sutardja and Weili Dai in 1995, serving as chief technology officer until 2014.
Pat Pistilli
Pat Pistilli, born Pasquale Pistilli, was an electrical engineer at Bell Labs who founded the Design Automation Conference in 1964 and co-founded MP Associates to run it.
Pat Weber
William Pez "Pat" Weber (1940–2024) was an American semiconductor executive who led Texas Instruments' chip business from 1986 to 1993 and briefly served as acting CEO in 1996.
Paul Newhagen
Paul Newhagen is an American semiconductor executive who co-founded Altera Corporation in 1983, served as its chief financial officer for about 10 years, and sat on its board until 2007.
Paul Severino
Paul Severino is an American technology entrepreneur who founded Interlan and Wellfleet Communications and co-founded Bay Networks; as Wellfleet's CEO he built it into Fortune's fastest-growing US company.
Phil Moorby
Phil Moorby (1953–2022) was a British-born engineer who invented the Verilog hardware description language and its Verilog-XL simulator, work that became the foundation of digital chip design and verification.
Philco
Philco, an American electronics company founded in 1906 as the Philadelphia Storage Battery Company, led US radio manufacturing in the 1930s before Ford bought it in 1961.
Prabhu Goel
Prabhu Goel is an engineer and entrepreneur who founded Gateway Design Automation, the company behind the Verilog hardware description language, and sold it to Cadence in 1989.
Pradeep Sindhu
Pradeep Sindhu (प्रदीप सिंधु) is an Indian-born American computer scientist who co-founded Juniper Networks in 1996, led the design of its M40 backbone router, and later founded Fungible.
Rahul Sud
Rahul Sud is an India-born semiconductor engineer, formerly Director of Memory Engineering at Intel, who founded Lattice Semiconductor in Oregon in 1983 and was dismissed as CEO in 1987.
Rajeev Madhavan
Rajeev Madhavan is an EDA entrepreneur and venture investor who co-founded Magma Design Automation in 1997, led it to a Nasdaq listing, and sold it to Synopsys in 2012.
Rambus
Rambus is a semiconductor company in San Jose, California, founded in 1990, that sells memory interface chips and silicon IP for data center and AI systems.
Ray Capece
Ray Capece, a former Electronics Magazine editor from New York who helped write Lattice's business plans, co-founded Lattice Semiconductor in Oregon in 1983 and later served as its Secretary.
Ray Stata
Ray Stata (Raymond Stata) is an American semiconductor entrepreneur and MIT-trained engineer who co-founded Analog Devices in 1965, led it as CEO, and chaired its board until 2022.
Ribbon Communications
Ribbon Communications is an American communications technology company, formed in 2017 by merging Sonus Networks and GENBAND, supplying session border controllers and IP networking equipment.
Rich Templeton
Rich Templeton is an American semiconductor executive who spent his 45-year career at Texas Instruments, serving as CEO from 2004 and chairman until his 2025 retirement.
Richard Egan (businessman)
Richard Egan, known as Dick Egan, was an American engineer who co-founded EMC Corporation in 1979 and served as US Ambassador to Ireland from 2001 to 2003.
Rob A. Rutenbar
Rob A. Rutenbar is an American electrical engineer and entrepreneur known for analog chip-design automation and, since 2017, research leadership at the University of Pittsburgh.
Rob Walker (electrical engineer)
Rob Walker (1935–2016) was a Silicon Valley engineer who co-founded the chip company LSI Logic in 1980 and led Stanford's Silicon Genesis oral history project.
Robert C. Dobkin
Robert C. Dobkin is an American analog integrated-circuit designer who co-founded Linear Technology in 1981, designed the first three-terminal adjustable voltage regulator, and holds over 100 patents.
Robert F. Graham
Robert F. Graham, known as Bob Graham (1929–1998), was an American semiconductor equipment executive who led Novellus Systems as CEO from 1986 and chairman from 1992.
Robert Galvin
Robert Galvin (1922–2011) was an American business executive who led Motorola, the company his father founded, from 1959, producing the first handheld cellular phone and developing Six Sigma.
Robert H. Swanson Jr.
Robert H. Swanson Jr., known as Bob Swanson, is an American semiconductor executive who co-founded Linear Technology in Milpitas, California, in 1981 and led it as CEO.