Hector A. Berardi

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.

Founded in 2000, Ubicom, Inc. is a semiconductor company headquartered in San Jose, CA, that develops processor and software solutions to optimize data flow when Media Meets Networking. Ubicom has shipped over millions of units to OEMs and ODMs around the world for a wide range of products including streaming media devices, home media distribution products, and wireless routers. Ubicom's fourth generation IP7K processor family is the latest in their line of 32-bit processors for high performance embedded applications. Ubicom develops networking and multimedia processor solutions that address the unique demands of networking applications and multimedia content delivery in the digital home. The company provides optimized system-level solutions to OEMs for a wide range of products including wireless routers, home gateways, VoIP gateways, and streaming media devices.

STMicroelectronics, Inc. manufactures and markets semiconductor devices. It produces application-specific analog chips and power conversion devices. The firm's products include memories, microcontrollers, transistors and analog mixed signal integrated circuits. Its products are used in discrete devices, camera modules mobile phones and automotive integrated circuits. The company was founded on August 4, 1983 and is headquartered in Coppell, TX.

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.

PLX Technology, Inc. designs, develops, manufactures, and sells semiconductor devices. The company was founded by Michael J. Salameh in May 1986 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.