Lars E. Johnsson

Beceem Communications, Inc. manufactured semiconductors for the wireless broadband market. It specialized in the emerging 4G-WiMAX marketplace. The company was founded in October 2003 by Surendra Babu Mandava and Arogyaswami J. Paulraj and headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Flarion Technologies, Inc. develops and provides broadband communication technologies and services. Flarion is engaged in mobilizing the Internet with its mobile communications network technology, flash-OFDM™. Flarion's technology enables mobile operators to offer Internet Protocol (IP)-based broadband services. Flarion's RadioRouter® base station product easily overlays onto an operator's existing network and radio spectrum and provides a seamless routing interface to the operator's existing IP network and the company's flash-OFDM-based devices provide users mobile Internet access with a true broadband experience. Flarion Technologies is headquartered in Bedminster, NJ.

Cavendish Kinetics, Inc. provides radio frequency tuning solutions for mobile devices in the wireless industry. It is a fabless supplier of tunable components for RF circuits used in cellular handsets, laptops, netbooks, tablets, and other consumer wireless devices. The firm offers tunable RF circuits, based on third-generation RF MEMS technology and its semiconductor processes, let users pack more performance into the same space. The company was founded by Charles Gordon Smith and Hermann M. Hauser in 1994 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Broadcom Corp. designs, develops and supplies semiconductors for wired and wireless communications. The company was founded by Henry T. Nicholas III and Henry Samueli on August 16, 1991 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Lucent Technologies designs and delivers the systems, services and software that drive next-generation communications networks.