Peter Hughes

Icera, Inc. designs, produces and markets multi-protocol wireless baseband processors with RF components. Its technology uses a custom-built, power processor that deliver communication engines for 3G and 4G cellular phones and tablets. Icera, Inc. was acquired in May 2011 and is now a wholly owned subsidiary of Nvidia. The company was founded in 2002 and is based in Bristol, England.

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.

element 14 Ltd. is a developer of high-port density, low-power Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) chipsets, software and communications processor technology. It is headquartered in Cambridge, the United Kingdom.

STMicroelectronics, Inc. manufactures and markets semiconductor devices. It produces application-specific analog chips and power conversion devices. The firm's products include memories, microcontrollers, transistors and analog mixed signal integrated circuits. Its products are used in discrete devices, camera modules mobile phones and automotive integrated circuits. The company was founded on August 4, 1983 and is headquartered in Coppell, TX.