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Robert Hartmann (semiconductor engineer)
Robert (Bob) Hartmann is an American semiconductor engineer who co-founded Altera in 1983, served as its Vice President of Engineering until 1994, and is known as the father of programmable logic.
Robert K. Brayton
Robert K. Brayton (1933–2025) was an American engineer and mathematician, a UC Berkeley professor and pioneer of electronic design automation whose tools shaped digital circuit design.
Robert Krakoff
Robert "RazerGuy" Krakoff was an American business executive who co-founded gaming-hardware company Razer and launched the Razer Boomslang, widely called the first gaming mouse, in 1999.
Robert Pepper
Robert Pepper is a semiconductor executive who was president, CEO, and chairman of Level One Communications in Sacramento, selling the chipmaker to Intel in 1999 for about $2.2 billion.
Robert R. Anderson
Robert R. Anderson is an American business executive who co-founded KLA Instruments in Silicon Valley in 1975, serving as Chairman, CFO, and COO until 1994.
Robert W. Dutton
Robert W. Dutton is an American electrical engineer and Stanford professor emeritus called the father of TCAD, whose group created the SUPREM and PISCES simulators.
Ronald Yara
Ronald Yara is an American semiconductor entrepreneur and venture capitalist who co-founded S3 Incorporated in 1989 and Chips & Technologies, later a general partner at Tallwood Venture Capital.
Ross Freeman
Ross H. Freeman (1948–1989) was an American engineer who invented the field-programmable gate array and co-founded Xilinx in San Jose in 1984, entering the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2009.
Roy Kusumoto
Roy Kusumoto (楠本) is an American engineer who founded Solectron in Milpitas, California in 1977, growing the circuit-board shop into the dominant electronics manufacturing services firm before its 2007 sale to Flextronics.
S-MOS Systems
S-MOS Systems was a San Jose semiconductor company founded in 1983 that designed CMOS chips sold in North America and fabricated by Seiko Epson in Japan.
S3 Graphics
S3 Graphics, also known as S3 Incorporated, was a Silicon Valley graphics-chip company founded in 1989 that held 43 percent of the graphics market in the mid-1990s before losing the 3D transition to Nvidia and ATI.
Sanjay Gajendra
Sanjay Gajendra is an American semiconductor executive who co-founded Astera Labs in 2017, serving as its President and COO; he was named EY World Entrepreneur Of The Year 2026.
Sanjay Mehrotra
Sanjay Mehrotra is an Indian-born American semiconductor executive, CEO of memory chipmaker Micron Technology since 2017, who co-founded SanDisk in 1988 and led it until its 2016 sale to Western Digital.
Satish Gupta
Satish Gupta is a Silicon Valley semiconductor executive who led Cradle Technologies as president and CEO from 1998 to 2002, after marketing roles at Cirrus Logic.
SDA Systems, later part of Cadence Design Systems
SDA Systems was a Silicon Valley electronic design automation company founded by James Solomon in 1983 to build chip design software, merging with ECAD to form Cadence in 1988.
Sean Lie
Sean Lie is a chip architect who co-founded Cerebras Systems in Sunnyvale, California, and as its chief hardware architect led the Wafer-Scale Engine, a chip spanning an entire silicon wafer.
Sehat Sutardja (Marvell Technology)
Sehat Sutardja (1961–2024) was an Indonesian-born American electrical engineer who co-founded the chipmaker Marvell Technology in 1995 and served as its CEO and chairman until 2016.
Semtech
Semtech is an American semiconductor company headquartered in Camarillo, California, founded in 1960, that makes analog and mixed-signal chips and owns the LoRa low-power wireless technology.
SHI International
SHI International is a closely held IT products and solutions provider headquartered in Somerset, New Jersey, founded in 1989 by Leo KoGuan and Thai Lee.
Shugart Associates
Shugart Associates was an American disk drive maker in Sunnyvale, California, founded in 1973 by former Memorex employees. Its SA400 Minifloppy became the model for the floppy industry.
Sid Sheth
Sid Sheth is an Indian-born semiconductor executive who co-founded d-Matrix in 2019 and leads the Santa Clara, California company as CEO and president, focused on AI inference chips.
Sidney Harman
Sidney Harman (1918–2011) was an American businessman who co-founded Harman Kardon in 1953, built Harman International into a global automotive audio supplier, and bought Newsweek in 2010.
Silicon Motion Technology
Silicon Motion Technology (慧荣科技) is a fabless designer of NAND flash controller chips for solid-state drives and embedded storage, founded in 1995 in San Jose, California, and Nasdaq-listed since 2005.
Solectron
Solectron was an electronics manufacturing services company founded in 1977 in Milpitas, California, that peaked at $18.7 billion in revenue before Flextronics acquired it in 2007.
Stanley Mazor
Stanley Mazor, born 1941 in Chicago, is an American engineer who co-developed the Intel 4004, the world's first microprocessor, and later worked on the 8008 and 8080, sharing the 1997 Kyoto Prize.
Steve Appleton
Steve Appleton was an American semiconductor executive who served as chairman, president, and CEO of Micron Technology from 1994 until his death in a 2012 plane crash.
Steve Sanghi
Steve Sanghi, born 1955 in Punjab, India, is an American semiconductor executive who built Microchip Technology into a leading 8-bit microcontroller supplier during nearly 30 years as CEO.
Sudeep Bhoja
Sudeep Bhoja is a semiconductor engineer who co-founded d-Matrix, a Santa Clara, California AI chip company, in 2019, serving as chief technology officer and chief architect of its Corsair accelerator.
Suhas Patil
Suhas Patil is an engineer and entrepreneur who founded Cirrus Logic, one of the first successful fabless semiconductor companies, after teaching at MIT and the University of Utah.
Synopsys Design Compiler
Synopsys Design Compiler is Synopsys' logic synthesis tool that converts RTL hardware descriptions in Verilog, SystemVerilog, or VHDL into gate-level netlists, optimizing timing, area, power, and test.