Rick Chapman

Spiral Gateway is a fabless semiconductor chip vendor with products that will deliver new levels of flexibility and performance to a key segment of the Image Signal Processing (ISP) market. The company was formed in 2004 as a spinout from the University of Edinburgh and holds exclusive rights to RICA (Reconfigurable Instruction Cell Architecture), a novel processing architecture and associated tool chain. This technology has the potential to achieve cost & performance points for existing signal processing functions, directly comparable with fixed function custom hardware, whilst offering the significant additional benefit of high degrees of flexibility through software programmability.

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.

SuperH, Inc. was designed and manufactured microprocessors. Its architecture had legacy of powering handheld devices from PDAs to digital cameras and they were developed into a family of CPU cores at next generation devices. Founded in 2001, SuperH was headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.