Bernard Xavier

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.

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.

Part of Texas Instruments Incorporated, innoCOMM wireless, Inc. develops chipsets for wireless networking applications. The company is based in San Diego, CA. The company was founded by Bernard Xavier, Dan Meacham. innoCOMM wireless was acquired by National Semiconductor Corp. on February 23, 2001 for $130 million.

Quorum Systems, Inc. manufactures semiconductor and related devices. It offers multi-mode, multi-band single-chip radio transceivers and managed enterprise mobility applications for wireline carriers. The company was founded in 2002 by Bernard Xavier and is headquartered in Menlo Park, CA.

Formative Ventures LLC (Formative ventures) is an Independent Venture Capital firm founded in 2000 by Brian Connors and Clint Chao. The firm is headquartered in Santa Clara, California.

Spreadtrum Communications, Inc. operates as a fabless semiconductor company that develops mobile chipset platforms for smartphones, feature phones, and other consumer electronics products. It supports 2G, 3G, and 4G wireless communications standards. The firms solutions combine its highly integrated, power-efficient chipsets with customizable software and reference designs in a complete turnkey platform, enabling customers to achieve faster design cycles with a lower development cost. The company was founded by Da Tong Chen, Ren Yong Fan, Jin Ji, and Ping Wu in April 2001 and is headquartered in Shanghai, China.

SmartCap AS (SC) is a venture capital subsidiary of KredEx headquartered in Estonia and was founded in 2007.