James Benefer

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.

Spreadtrum Communication, Inc. develops and markets digital wireless communication products. It provides 2G, 2.5G, 3G base band chip set, protocol stack software, application software & total solutions for wireless equipment manufactures, mobile terminal vendors and semiconductor companies. The company was founded by Ping Wu & Datong Chen in 2001 and is located in Sunnyvale, CA.

Part of Broadcom Inc., ZSP Corp is a company that makes and markets integrated circuit products. The company is based in Santa Clara, CA. ZSP was acquired by LSI Logic Corp. on April 14, 1999.

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.

GCT Semiconductor, Inc. provides wireless communication solutions. The firm designs and supplies advanced 4G LTE and 5G semiconductor solutions. GCT’s market-proven LTE solutions, commercially available since 2010, have enabled fast and reliable LTE connectivity to numerous commercial devices such as smartphones, tablets, hotspots, CPEs, USB dongles, routers, M2M applications, and more, to the world’s top LTE carriers. It's system-on-chip solutions integrate radio frequency, baseband modem and digital signal processing functions into a single die, therefore offering complete 4G platform solutions with small form factors, low power consumption, high performance, high reliability and cost effectiveness. The company was founded by Kyeong-Ho H. Lee and Ki-Sub Lee in 1998 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.