Paul Pickering

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.

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.

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 Corp. engages in the provision of semiconductor and system solutions for communications, defense & security, aerospace and industrial markets. Its products include high-performance and radiation-hardened analog mixed-signal integrated circuits, FPGAs, SoCs and ASICs; power management products; timing and synchronization devices and precise time solutions. The company was founded in 1960 and is headquartered in Chandler, AZ.

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.

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.

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.

Zeevo, Inc. manufactures semiconductor devices which develops and markets system on chip solutions for the communication industry. It provides semiconductor solutions for Bluetooth wireless headset products. The company was founded by Anil Agarwal in September 1999 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, 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.