Derek Meyer

Arc International Ltd. (United Kingdom) was founded in 1996. The company is based in St. Albans, UK. The British company specializes in processor IP solutions, including ARC® HS, ARC EM, ARC VPX, and ARC EV processors, ARC subsystems, and the ASIP Designer and MetaWare tools. Arc International Ltd. (United Kingdom was acquired by Abigail (UK) Ltd. on September 21, 2009 for $40.93 million.

Quartics designs, develops and markets proprietary integrated circuits based on its patented Qvu™ architecture, which has established a new category of video processors, the system on a chip (SoC) video processing unit (VPU), designed specifically to deliver advanced digital video solutions, including superior video playback quality and advanced functionality enabling installation of custom software applications such as 2d to 3D video conversion, HD video chat, gesture recognition and video search. Qvu™-enabled video processing solutions are available to OEM and ODM companies worldwide and have been adopted by some of the world's largest consumer electronics companies. Quartics' revolutionary Qvu™ architecture allows consumer electronics manufacturers to deliver an unsurpassed HD quality video experience previously not possible with existing video solutions. Quartics' Qvu™ technology is poised to become the industry standard for next-generation video processing for personal computers, HDTVs, set-top boxes and other video-enabled consumer electronic devices. Quartics is a fabless semiconductor company located in Irvine, CA, with offices in India, China and Taiwan. Quartics was formed in 2003 to focus on a programmable semiconductor architecture for high-performance video processing, with the aim of overcoming the significant challenges of modern digital video processing.

MIPS Technologies, Inc. engages in the provision of intellectual property processor architectures and cores. Its products include Warrior M-Class, Warrior I-Class, Warrior-P Class, AptiveGeneration, and microMIPS ISA. The company was founded by John L. Hennessy in 1984 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Sun Microsystems, Inc. provides network computing infrastructure solutions. It offers its solutions under the Java technology platform, Solaris Operating System, MySQL database management system, Sun StorageTek storage solutions, and UltraSPARC processor brands. The company also develops networking computing products and technologies which include servers, storage, open source software, tools, and training. The company provides solutions to the social networking, entertainment, financial services, manufacturing, healthcare, retail, news, energy, and engineering companies. The company was founded in 1982 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

ARC International Corp. (California) engages in recycling waste electronics. The company was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in City of Industry, CA.

Wave Computing, Inc. develops IP and semiconductor solutions. The firm enables enterprises to accelerate their AI applications. The company was founded by Peter Foley and Karl Fant on December 8, 2009 and is headquartered in Campbell, CA.

Pound Capital Ltd (Pound Capital) is an independent private equity firm founded in 2002. The firm is headquartered in Stamford.