Narayanan Ram

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.

RAE Systems, Inc. provides intelligent gas and radiation detection systems. It offers wireless enabled solutions including personal, hand-held, transportable, and fixed instruments. The firm's products include MultiRAE, QRAE 3 and AutoRAE 2. The company was founded by Robert I. Chen and Peter C. Hsi in 1991 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Volterra Semiconductor Corp. designs, develops and markets proprietary analog and mixed-signal power management semiconductors for the computing, storage, networking and consumer markets. Its products includes integrated voltage regulator semiconductors, integrated power protection and distribution semiconductors and scalable voltage regulator semiconductor chipsets that transform, regulate, deliver and monitor the power consumed by electronic systems. The company sells its products to original equipment manufacturers, original design manufacturers, contract equipment manufacturers and merchant power supply manufacturers. Volterra Semiconductor was founded by Craig Teuscher, David B. Lidsky, Anthony Stratakos and Marco Zuniga in August 1996 and is headquartered in Fremont, CA.

Alien Technology LLC engages in design, manufacture and sale of radio frequency identification products. Its professional services include custom training, technical consulting, program and project management, site survey and spectrum analysis, physical architecture review, product packaging and tag placement, optimal antenna and reader placement & orientation, system configuration and technical support & maintenance. The firm’s products include chips, tags, readers and antennas. The company was founded in December 1994 by John Stephen Smith and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Open-Silicon, Inc. provides application integrated circuit solutions. It offers prototyping, software and validation, virtual prototyping, design, analog ICS and production handoffs solutions. The company was founded by Satya Gupta, Naveed Sherwani and Scott Houghton in 2003 and is headquartered in Milpitas, CA.

Integrated Memory Logic, Inc. designs, manufactures, and markets application specific analog, power management, and mixed signal integrated circuits primarily for display, mobile systems, and lighting markets. The firm's products include tablets, televisions, monitors and notebooks. The company was founded by Shuen-Chin Chang in December 1996 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Multigig, Inc. provides semiconductor products. It offers clock synthesizer ICs which provides ultra-low jitter and phase noise reference clock signals to communication, computing, and networking interface devices. It specializes in highly innovative high-performance clocking technology. The company was founded by Steve Beccue, John Wood and Haris Basit in 2000 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Avalanche Technology, Inc. develops digital memory storage technology products. It offers spin programmable memory, a non-volatile ultra low power magnetic memory. The firm's products include stand-alone discrete memory chips, AvRAM and solid-state cache. The company was founded by Rajiv Y. Ranjan and Petro Estakhri in August 2006 and is headquartered in Fremont, CA.

Apixio, Inc. operates as a data science company for healthcare. Its patented cognitive computing platform extracts and analyzes clinical data in electronic and PDF health records, generating deep insights into patient health. The firm feeds these insights into applications such as HCC Profiler which enables HCC coding review. The company was founded by Shahin Hedayat, Shawn Dastmalchi, Imran Chaudhri and Bob Rogers in 2009 and is headquartered in San Mateo, CA.

Part of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd., TSMC North America, Inc. is a company that manufactures, distributes, and tests integrated circuits, silicon wafers, diodes, and related semiconductor components. The company is based in San Jose, CA. The CEO of the company is Dave Keller.

Headquartered in Milpitas, Calif. with operations in Ottawa, Canada and New Delhi, India, empowerTel Networks is one of the leading supplier of systems solutions for the converging networking and telecommunications markets. Leading the advance in voice and data convergence, empowerTel has developed the first carrier VoIP Switch optimized for seamless migration of traditional PSTN customers to VoIP

Stein Rogan + Partners provides on-line and off-line marketing services. Its services include creative development, media planning, buying, branding, and other marketing services. The company was founded by Thomas Stein in 1985 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Stream Machine Co. provides semiconductor solutions that enable video and audio compression. Its compression technology offers video at low bit-rates and is compatible with consumer standards, including MPEG-2, MP3 and Dolby Digital. The company is located in Milpitas, CA.

VLI USA provides VoIP software solutions and broadband services. The company's products include applications, session, media control, access, handsets, terminals & operation support systems. It also offers VoIP migration, fixed mobile convergence, and IP based multimedia services. The company was founded in August 2002 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

Global Factory, Inc. provides collaborative manufacturing execution systems. The firm's software gather, organize & analyze demand, production & quality data from various sources and monitor key indicators & execute business processes to control, manage & optimize distributed manufacturing operations. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Digi-Key Corp. distributes electronic components. It also distributes semiconductors, discrete, electromechanical parts. Its products include audio products, batteries, cable assemblies, capacitors, computer & video accessories, connectors, crystals & oscillators, discrete semiconductor products and many more. The company was founded by Ronald A. Stordahl in 1972 and is headquartered in Thief River Falls, MN.

Shelton-Keller Group, Inc. engages in the design of work spaces, waiting rooms, and offices. It offers furnishings, architectural, technology solutions. The company was founded by Diana Keller in 1996 and is headquartered in Austin, TX.