Paul Pickering

Xpedion Design Systems, Inc. provided simulation, analysis and behavioral modeling solutions. It offered services to RFIC/Wireless and high frequency System-on-Chip (SoC) designers. The company has sales offices in France, Sweden and in UK. It was founded by Edouard Ngoya and Jean Rousset in 1998. The company was headquartered in Milpitas, CA.

Innovative Silicon, Inc. is a privately-held, venture-backed memory chips development company. Innovative Silicon specializes in random-access memory technology and Dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) devices. Founded by Pierre C. Fazan and Serguei Okhonin in 2002, Innovative Silicon is headquartered in Santa Clara, California.

The Fairchild Corp. engaged in the design and sale of protective clothing, helmets & technical accessories for motorcyclists.The company was founded by Robert Noyce, Gordon Moore, and Eugene Kleiner in October 1969 and is headquartered in Vienna, VA.

Toshiba America, Inc. is a holding company, which manufactures and markets electronic products. It offers laptops, communication systems, electronic components, electrical apparatus, social infrastructure products, netbooks, lcd, led, televisions, blu-ray and dvd players, camcorders, ultrabooks, computer accessories, enterprise computing, printers, electronic components, surveillance and liquid crystal displays. The company was founded in 1965 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

LSI Corp. designs, develops, and markets high-performance storage and networking semiconductors. Its products include custom and standard product integrated circuits that are used in disk drives, solid state drives, high-speed communications systems, computer servers, storage systems, and personal computers. The company was founded on November 6, 1980 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Microsemi Storage Solutions, Inc. engages in the design, development, marketing, and support of semiconductor solutions by integrating its mixed-signal, software, and systems expertise through a network of offices in North America, Europe, and Asia. The company was founded by James V. Diller, Sr., Colin C. Harris, Brian Gerson, Gregory D. Aasen, Glenn Bindley, and Kevin Huscroft in 1984 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

Exar Corp. engages in the design, development, and sale of analog and mixed-signal integrated circuits; as well as advanced sub-system solutions for the industrial and embedded systems, high-end consumer, and infrastructure markets. Its product portfolio includes power management, connectivity, and communications products; as well as data and storage products for network security and storage optimization solutions. The company was founded in April 1971 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Atomica Corp. engages in the provision of turn-key foundry services from design and development to prototyping and volume production. It offers technology platforms and technology modules to reduce the development cycle and to reach production in the shortest time. The company was founded by Peter T. Altavilla, Paul Rubel and Mike Shillinger in April, 2000 and is headquartered in Santa Barbara, CA.

Micralyne, Inc. develops and manufactures micro fabricated products. It offers wafer level packaging, die level packaging, silicon optical bench and spatial light valve. The firm’s services are used in the areas of microfluidics and MEMs sensors. The company was founded in 1982 and is headquartered in Edmonton, Canada.