Paramesh Gopi

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.

Marvell Semiconductor, Inc. provides storage, networking, and connectivity semiconductor solutions. Its product portfolio includes switching, transceiver, communications controller, wireless, and storage solutions. The company was founded on February 10, 1995 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Conexant Systems LLC provides semiconductor solutions for imaging, audio, embedded modem, and video surveillance applications. The company is headquartered in Irvine, CA.

Mindspeed Technologies, Inc. manufactures semiconductor solutions for network infrastructure applications. The firm offers communications convergence processing products that include ultra-low-power, multi-core digital signal processor system-on-chip for the fixed and mobile carrier infrastructure, residential and enterprise platforms. The company is headquartered in Lowell, MA.

Ultratech, Inc. develops, manufactures and markets photolithography, laser thermal processing and inspection equipment. The firm’s products are designed to reduce the cost of ownership for manufacturers of semiconductor devices, including advanced packaging processes and various nanotechnology components such as thin film head magnetic recording devices, laser diodes, high-brightness light emitting diodes. The company was founded by Arthur W. Zafiropoulo in 1979 and is headquartered in San Jose CA.