Robert Blake

Octasic, Inc. engages in the provision of media and wireless baseband processing silicon and software solutions for the converged carrier, enterprise and end-point communication equipment markets. The firm's VoIP, HD video and multi-standard wireless basestation multi-core DSP solutions are based on Opus, a asynchronous DSP architecture. The company was founded by Laurence Michel in 1998 and is headquartered in Montreal, Canada.

Altera Corp. operated as a global semiconductor company. The company was founded by Robert F. Hartmann, Michael Magranet, Paul Newhagen and James D. Sansbury in 1983 and was headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Achronix Semiconductor Corp. offers high-density and high-performance application-targeted field programmable gate arrays. Its products include Speedster22i HD, Speedster22i HP, ACE, Boards, Documentation and Video Demos. The firm also offers the Achronix CAD environment (ACE), an easy-to-use, mature, robust design-tool suite for its customers and ACE includes integrated support for industry-standard synthesis tools Synplify Pro and Precision Synthesis. The company was founded by John Lofton Holt, Rajit Manohar, Virantha N. Ekanayake, and Clinton W. Kelly VI in 2004 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.