Ronald Steven Jankov

Part of Texas Instruments Incorporated, Cyrix Corp is a private company that makes personal computer microprocessors. The company is based in Richardson, TX. Cyrix was acquired by National Semiconductor Corp., part of Texas Instruments Incorporated from September 23, 2011 on November 17, 1997 for $525.70 million.

Xilinx, Inc. engages in the design and development of programmable logic semiconductor devices and the related software design tools. It also provides design services, customer training, field engineering, and technical support. The company was founded by Ross Freeman, Bernard Vonderschmitt, and James V. Barnett in February 1984 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

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.

Knowles Electronics Holdings, Inc. offers a range of micro-acoustic, electro-mechanical and related technology platforms. The firm serves military, medical and security industries. The company was founded in 1946 and is headquartered in Itasca, IL.

NetLogic Microsystems, Inc. is a fables semiconductor company that designs, develops, and markets high-performance processors and high-speed integrated circuits that help accelerate the delivery of voice, video, data and multimedia content for advanced enterprise, datacenter, communications, and mobile wireless networks. Its product portfolio includes high-performance multi-core processors, knowledge-based processors, high-speed Gigabit Ethernet (GE) physical layer (PHY) devices, network search engines, and ultra low-power embedded processors. These products are designed into high-performance systems such as switches, routers, wireless base stations, access aggregation, radio network controllers, security appliances, networked storage appliances, service gateways and connected media devices offered by original equipment manufacturers. The company was founded by Varadarajan Srinivasan and Norman Godinho in 1995 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.