Anthony C. D'Augustine

Trident Microsystems, Inc. provides multimedia semiconductor solutions for the digital home entertainment market. The company designs, develops, and markets integrated circuits and related software for the process, display, and transmission of high quality audio, graphics, and images in home consumer electronics applications. These applications are digital TVs (DTV), PC and analog TVs, and set-top boxes. Its products include system-on-a-chip semiconductors. These provide completely integrated solutions for processing and optimizing video, audio, and computer graphic signals, in order to produce high-quality and realistic images and sound. The firm also produces frame rate converters, demodulators, audio decoder products, interface devices, and media processors. The company was founded in 1987 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

Part of Rockwell Automation, Inc., Brooktree Corp. is a private company that specializes in integrated circuits. The company is based in San Diego, CA. The company was founded by Jeff Teza. Brooktree was acquired by Rockwell Automation, Inc. on September 25, 1996 for $275 million.

Applied Micro Circuits Corp. engages in the provision of silicon solutions for next-generation cloud infrastructure and data centers, as well as connectivity products for edge, metro and long haul communications equipment. Its products include the X-Gene ARM 64-bit Server on a Chip solution, or X-Gene, designed for cloud data center and enterprise applications. It offers a line of embedded computing products based on power architecture. The company's connectivity portion of base business provides high-speed, high-bandwidth, high-reliability communications products. Its connectivity products include framer or mapper devices for Optical Transport Network equipment and physical layer devices that transmit and receive signals in a very high-speed serial format. The company was founded in 1979 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Conexant Systems LLC provides semiconductor solutions for imaging, audio, embedded modem, and video surveillance applications. The company is headquartered in Irvine, CA.

Syntricity, Inc. provides web-based and enterprise yield management software solutions. Its software solutions is used by semiconductor companies, test vendors and wafer foundries to gather, manage and analyze data from facilities around the world to improve yield and reduce product development cycles. Its products include dataconductor, RaCR, AMP, SYM, and data formats. It offers implementation, training, and consulting services. The company was founded by Steven Griffith on March 7, 1997 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.