Gary John Johnson

PortalPlayer, Inc. designed and manufactured semiconductor and firmware components. The company offered software for original equipment manufacturers of personal media players and notebook computers with secondary displays. PortalPlayer was founded by John H. Mallard in 1999 and headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Air Semiconductor, Inc. provides semiconductor devices to the mobile sectors. The company manufactures chips for use in cellphones, digital cameras, portable media players, laptops, and digital watches. It was founded by Stephen Graham and David Tester in May 2006 and is headquartered in Swindon, GB.

Movidius, Inc. provides multimedia applications for mobile phones and other electronics. It designs compact, high-performance, ultralow power, multi-core, computational image-processor chips, software and development tools and reference designs, to revolutionize computational imaging and computer vision on mobile devices such as smartphones, tablets, and electronic eyewear. The company was founded by Paul Joseph Costigan, Sean Patrick Mitchell, David Macdara Moloney, and Valentin Muresan in 2005 and is headquartered in San Mateo, CA.

Silex Microsystems AB is a holding company that manufactures customized Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS) products. The firm operates as an independent MEMS foundry. Its product MEMS, which are complex mechanical and electrical systems are built in micro scale on one single chip. Its product is divided in categories such as: sensors, actuators, and basic three-dimensional structures. The company was founded by Johan Edvard Soren Kalvesten in October 2000 and is headquartered in Jarfalla, Sweden.

National Semiconductor Corp. develops and manufactures analog intensive and mixed-signal integrated circuits. The firm’s product portfolio includes power management circuits, audio and operational amplifiers, analog-to-digital or digital-to-analog converters, communication interface circuits, lighting and display circuits, adaptive voltage scaling circuits, and radio frequency integrated circuits, as well as power references, regulators, and switches. The company was founded by Arie Brish on June 29, 1959 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA.